Campus & Community

On Sunday, June 21, families can travel back in time to the Victorian age while experiencing a fantastic future at the 2015 STEAMpunk Expo, held at the Morris Arboretum.

Four student teams from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) in the School of Engineering and Applied Science took home top prizes at the Cornell Cup, a college-level embedded design competition created to empower student teams to become the inventors of the newest innovative applic

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 23.5 million people in the United States live in food deserts—urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. More than half of these individuals live in low-income households.

Two-and-a-half decades ago, Michaela Majoun accepted a DJ job at the fledgling WXPN 88.5 radio station.

Dear Benny,During the winter months, I don’t mind going to the gym to exercise. But now that the weather is warm, I want to spend more time outside. Are there any outdoor places on campus where I can do activities to stay fit?— In the Great Outdoors

PULITZER FELLOW: Farzana Shah, a master’s student in the School of Nursing, was recently awarded a Pulitzer International Student Reporting Fellowship from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization

This past semester, Anne Tiballi taught a freshman seminar in Penn’s Department of Anthropology in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Sergeant Hall, formerly located at 34th and Chestnut streets, was built in 1900 as an upscale apartment building named The Essex. Penn purchased the building in 1924 and opened its first dorm for women during a decade when the number of women students at the University was on the rise.

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.