Campus & Community

With OPenn, new discoveries are inevitable.

When most people consider the concept of evolution, they may imagine a process by which an organism adapts to a new environment, envisioning, for example, the varied beaks of Darwin’s finches. But the vast majority of evolutionary processes don’t act to change an organism—they try to keep it the same. This type of selection pressure is known as purifying selection.

On Sunday, June 28, Chaz Howard will kick off the triathlon with a 1,500-meter (slightly less than a mile) swim. Josh Bolton will keep spirits high with a 24.8-mile bike ride.

In early June, Penn engineers were among the 23 teams that brought the world’s most advanced humanoid robots to Pasadena, Calif., for the ultimate test: the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals. There, robots had to pass a gauntlet of eight tasks that simulate what a rescue robot might be called on to perform in a crisis situation.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Volunteers in Public Service scholarship program awarded supplemental scholarships to five local high school students at a ceremony Tuesday, June 9.  

WHAT:          The University of Pennsylvania will provide non-tuition scholarships to five students from five local high schools in recognition of their history of community service.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a three to five percent reduction in the probability of criminal recidivism among a sample of juveniles arrested for felony drug offenses, some of whom were processed as adults due to their age at the time of their arrests.

The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania will host a June 10-12 conference addressing some of today's critical issues such as child trafficking and underrepresented populations in the child welfare system.

Marketers have said for years that Americans give up their data online, on apps and in stores because of the benefits they receive, such as discounts or special offers.  But a new national survey from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication rebuts this claim and offers a new explanation: resignation.