Campus & Community

University City’s 30th Street Station isn’t just a place to hop off or on a train at the beginning or end of a workday. On the plaza outside the station, The Porch, it’s also a place to take in some midday live music, chow down on offerings from food trucks, and bask in the spring sunshine.

Open Enrollment, the annual opportunity to make changes to health care benefits, runs from Monday, April 20, through Friday, May 1. There will be changes to the prescription carrier, the Health Care Flexible Spending Account, and several health and dental plans.

Five seniors from the School of Engineering and Applied Science are this year’s winners of the Pennvention Competition, a technology innovation contest open to all  students at the University.

Earlier this month, the Wharton School announced the winner of the fourth annual Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize: Riders for Health, an international social enterprise

Dear Benny,

Penn is among 28 schools across the United States surveying students about sexual assault as part of a project sponsored by the Association of American Universities (AAU).

Nanotechnology may sound futuristic, but it has already found its way into household products, from cosmetics to cleaning solutions. And with a little help from a School of Dental Medicine scientist, consumers may one day even find nanoparticles in a tube of toothpaste.

The histories of Penn and West Philadelphia are closely intertwined. Just as it could be said that Penn has directly informed the development of West Philadelphia, it’s also true that West Philadelphia has largely shaped the evolution of Penn.

The “Gwendolyn” in Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is a salute from her parents to Gwendolyn Brooks, the celebrated poet who in 1950 became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Oxygen makes up about 21 percent of the air we breathe, with each breath bringing luxuriant, life-sustaining nutrients to the lungs, blood, brain, and body. In its purest form, oxygen, when inhaled at high pressure, can have rejuvenating therapeutic and physiological effects, such as treating radiation damage from cancer treatment and non-healing wounds.