Campus & Community

WHAT:           University of Pennsylvania Program on Race, Science & Society, “How Do We Study Racial Disparities in Health and What Have We Learned?” Public Lecture

The Final round and announcement of the winner of the 4th Annual National Invitational Public Policy Challenge, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government, will be held March 22 at the National Constitution Center.

Opened in 1952, Dietrich Hall was Wharton’s first building constructed exclusively for the business school. Named after D. Wellington Dietrich, the uncle of Wharton alumni and donors H. Richard and Daniel W. Dietrich, it was one of the first campus buildings erected after World War II.

From April 23 through 25, athletes and fans of track and field will descend on Franklin Field for the Penn Relay Carnival.

According to the EPA, Americans spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors. This spring, the Penn Green Campus Partnership hopes to inspire people to spend more time outdoors.

Penn President Amy Gutmann has received the 2015 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award from the American Council on Education (ACE), the major coordinating body for all the nation’s higher education institutions.

Two schools at Penn will be getting new deans: Theodore Ruger has been named the dean of Penn Law School and Vijay Kumar has been named the dean of the Sch

Dear Benny,

When Kathryn Hellerstein traveled to New York City earlier this month to accept a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council, she was technically being honored for her most recent book, “A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987.”

Genetic research has advanced our understanding of how and why cancer occurs by identifying mutations that are associated with an increased risk of getting the disease or with more aggressive forms of cancer.