Campus & Community

The Rev. Charles “Chaz” Howard wants to encourage conversations around stopping gun violence. One way he’s doing so is with a new initiative—independent from his role as University Chaplain—dubbed Gun Free World.

In October, the Next Generation Student Systems (NGSS) team, led by Michael Kearney of Information Systems & Computing and Robert Tisot of Student Registration and Financial Services, successfully launched the first of three major initiatives, a new student billing s

Several Penn faculty members are leading teams of researchers and students in local and national efforts to combat homelessness among youth, families, and veterans.

Of the many different medical conditions for which treatment is sought, chronic ones are by far the most common and the most costly. They are also among the most preventable.

Long before “active learning” became buzz words in higher education, a contingent of Penn faculty, students, and local writers led by Al Filreis had the idea to establish a place on campus where students could be co-creators of literary and artistic knowledge.

Jami Fisher, a lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Linguistics, has a long history with American Sign Language.

Much of modern architecture in the 1950s consisted of glass and steel buildings that appeared lighter than air, prismatic structures ready to serve any function—as an apartment building, a school, or hospital —nearly any place on Earth.

A University of Pennsylvania medical student working in pediatric oncology and a senior whose research focuses on finding a cure for paralysis are two of 12 Americans selected to receive 2017 George J.

Four faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  They are among a class of 347 researchers that have been awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications

Adebisi (Debi) Ogunrinde, a University of Pennsylvania senior from Halifax, Nova Scotia, has won a Rhodes Scholarship.  She is one of 11 recipients from Canada. Ogunrinde will pursue a masters in social anthropology and a masters in public policy at the University of Oxford.