Campus & Community

Three University of Pennsylvania deans have joined forces to improve the lives of Philadelphia youth and families through the Penn Futures Project (PFP).

The University of Pennsylvania today released a report demonstrating a combined economic impact of the University and Penn Medicine of more than $14 billion on the state and citywide economy in fiscal year 2015.

A senior at the University of Pennsylvania and a Penn alumna have won 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholarships to pursue graduate degrees at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

This past Sunday, Animal Planet lured television viewers away from the Denver Broncos victory in Super Bowl 50 to watch puppies tussle over squeaky toys in Puppy Bowl XII. Later this year, however, the same network will showcase a different kind of challenge: the rigors of attaining a degree from the School of Veterinary Medicine.

In adjacent rooms at Penn’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction (CIRNA) in the Perelman School of Medicine, a man flips through a magazine, and a woman fiddles with her phone.

In a calendar year, the average member of the Penn community consumes 15,724 kilowatt-hours of energy. That’s enough power to fully charge an iPhone 6 for 4,138 years, or watch TV for 18 consecutive years.

King Midas, with his magic hands of gold, was a popular figure in Greek mythology, but stories about his real life show his influence as the ruler of the Phrygian kingdom more than 3,000 years ago in the area now known as Turkey.

Researchers are constantly looking for new and better ways of storing the 0’s and 1’s of computer memory. One idea has been to represent bits as different atomic structures in a material.

Susan Wharton, a wealthy philanthropist from the family that gave the Wharton School its name, set in motion the chain of events that brought historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois to Penn.

The use of drones has had significant consequences for how governments conduct counter-terrorism operations.