Campus & Community

On May 13, the City of Philadelphia’s Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces Law, also known as the Philadelphia Sick Leave Law, went into effect. The legislation requires employers in the city to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours an employee works.

With only one semester of graduate school at Penn under her belt, Heather Kostick is about to complete her first phase of research for her capstone project.

Seven students from the School of Veterinary Medicine are traveling to Italy this week to see how European societies ensure that their animals—and the foods those animals produce—remain healthy and safe.

If a man has a map, he can know where he is without knowing which way he is facing. If a woman has a compass, she can know which way she’s facing without knowing where she is. Animals from ants to mice to humans use both kinds of information to reorient themselves in familiar places, but how they determine this information from environmental cues is not well understood.

Penn Libraries is now home to a very rare copy of what’s believed to be the final book printed by University founder Benjamin Franklin.

Sometimes even cells get tired. When the T cells of your immune system are forced to deal over time with cancer or a chronic infection such as HIV or hepatitis C, they can develop "T cell exhaustion," becoming less effective and losing their ability to attack and destroy the invaders of the body.

The 1920s were still relatively early in the days of widespread access to electric power. The high-voltage lines carrying electricity from hydroelectric dams in the Sierra Nevada to consumers in Los Angeles were considered a magnificent feat of technological innovation, yet this massive and expensive system quickly came under threat from an unexpected source: bird poop.

This summer, Penn will begin rolling out additional initiatives that aim to foster a healthier campus through reduced tobacco use. 

Penn astronomers are celebrating the dedication of a new planet-hunting telescope known as Minerva-Red.

First there were working dogs and flying robots. Now, Penn hopes to draw a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs to a 23-acre parcel of land along the southern bank of the Schuylkill River.