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Spring classes are in full bloom at Morris Arboretum

    • Spring classes are in full bloom at Morris Arboretum

    Spring is the season of renewal, and the Morris Arboretum’s slate of spring classes may help someone spark an interest in a new hobby or express his or her creativity.

    Jeanne Leong

    Consumed by Love of Cooking, Penn Senior Is a Student by Day, Chef at Night

    • Consumed by Love of Cooking, Penn Senior Is a Student by Day, Chef at Night

    From interning in a kitchen breaking down hundreds of lobsters to hunting truffles in Italy to hosting random four course dinner parties, Amanda Shulman lives to cook. The University of Pennsylvania senior has completed the first level of basic cuisine from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and is as likely to fall asleep reading a cookbook as she is reading a textbook studying for class.

    Jacquie Posey

    Penn Professor Grant Frame Receives $250,000 NEH Grant for Humanities Project

    • Penn Professor Grant Frame Receives $250,000 NEH Grant for Humanities Project

    The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Grant Frame, University of Pennsylvania associate professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations, a two-year $250,000 grant for his Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period Project. The award brings to nearly $950,000 the total NEH grants Frame has received for the RINAP Project since 2008.

    Jacquie Posey

    Penn Abroad in Tanzania Is Educational, Enlightening and Thrilling

    • Penn Abroad in Tanzania Is Educational, Enlightening and Thrilling

    Waking up and seeing a two-ton elephant nearby sounds like it could be a scene from a movie, but that’s exactly what University of Pennsylvania student Hannah Watene experienced while studying abroad in Tanzania.

    Jeanne Leong

    Penn Students Express Themselves Through Spoken Word

    • Penn Students Express Themselves Through Spoken Word

    When members of the spoken word troupe The Excelano Project perform, their fans in the University of Pennsylvania community are spellbound by what they have to say. 

    Jeanne Leong

    University Launches Penn Wharton China Center

    • University Launches Penn Wharton China Center

    The University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania announced the opening of the Penn Wharton China Center (PWCC) in Beijing, China on March 10, 2015.