Campus & Community

As students, engineers-to-be rarely get a chance to examine topics in business psychology, but Mark Liam Murphy, a sophomore from Wilmington, N.C., spent his first summer on campus at the University of Pennsylvania doing just that. 

The quiet of the summer has ended and the Penn campus is alive with activity at the arrival of the Class of 2019. Members of the freshman class began moving into college houses on Aug. 20, pulling suitcases filled with clothing and carrying in necessities including lamps, bedding, and laptops.

The quiet of the summer has ended and the Penn campus is alive with activity at the arrival of the Class of 2019. Members of the freshman class began moving into college houses on Aug. 20, pulling suitcases filled with clothing and carrying in necessities including lamps, bedding, and laptops. [flickr]72157657529401191[/flickr]

  Stanton Wortham has been named faculty director of the Online Learning Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. He is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education. The announcement was made by Provost Vincent Price and Beth Winkelstein, vice provost for education.

Penn Director of Athletics and Recreation M.

Q. What does a “tobacco-less” culture mean?A. Penn hopes to shift the way that faculty, staff, and students on campus think about tobacco use. A tobacco-less environment is one that encourages tobacco cessation and provides people with the necessary tools to eliminate tobacco from their lives.

A new white paper just released by the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) finds that university-based research and development (R&D) affects the spatial development of universities, as well as their surrounding urban areas.

Two thousand of the world’s top young coders will descend on the Wells Fargo Center from Friday, September 4 to Sunday September 6, battling for over $30,000 in prizes at the world’s largest collegiate hackathon: PennApps.

The day’s heat felt sweltering, but it didn’t stop the gardening crew—or G-Squad—from getting weeds picked, plants watered, and “good food bags” packed for their West Philadelphia neighborhood customers.

Around the globe, lightning flashes 44 times a second. Contrast that with meteorite impacts, which occur just five to 10 times per year.