Campus & Community

It’s a time for family and friends, fun and laughs, and most of all—giving. Yes, believe it or not, the winter holidays are within reach.

David Grazian used to spend a lot of time in blues clubs in Chicago and in the entertainment districts of Philadelphia. For the early part of the Penn sociology professor’s career, his research was devoted to nightlife in cities.

Roger LaMay, general manager of WXPN, was recently elected chair of the NPR Board of Directors. “It’s a great honor and responsibility to be elected to lead one of the world’s leading fact-based journalism organizations,” LaMay says. “NPR is peerless in its impact on our culture and democracy.”

The School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center, in collaboration with Four Dimensional Digital Imaging, will pioneer a first-ever, robotics-controlled imaging system for use in the standing and moving horse.

Penn President Amy Gutmann recently announced the launch of the President’s Innovation Prize.

The Leaf Collection and Recycling Program is one of several services provided by the Philadelphia Streets Department to honor the city’s ongoing commitment to recycling. The recycling program helps to reduce the amount of materials that reach the waste stream and saves landfill space. The 2015 Leaf Collection and Recycling Program runs through Saturday, Dec. 19.

A team of graduate students from the School of Engineering and Applied Science were among seven finalists at the Collegiate Inventors Competition earlier this week.

More than 150 Thanksgivings have come and gone since Penn’s founding.

Teenagers are notoriously reckless. They engage in risky sexual behaviors, binge drink alcohol, and abuse tobacco and other drugs. Behind the wheel of a car, teenagers are most dangerous, to themselves and others. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, and the risk of crashing is higher among 16 to 19 year olds than any other age group.

As the world prepares for another global conversation about climate change at the annual Conference of Parties (COP21) conference in Paris in December, a court decision in the Netherlands has added a new twist.