Campus & Community

Penn conference focuses on Freud and fatherhood

Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychoanalysis, shaping theories that inform what we know about human development and sexual desire.

Geophysicists study creep and flow of rivers

What do glass, dirty ice, and riverbeds have in common? All are disordered solids, meaning they have malleable internal structures that can rearrange themselves over time.

Penn President and Penn Libraries Host Lea School Students

A special visit from West Philadelphia elementary school students to Penn Libraries’ Emancipation Proclamation exhibit complements what the students are learning in their classes about the document.

FRES leads Penn’s battle versus the snow

Mother Nature has dropped mountains of snow on Penn’s campus over the last two winters, in all its frosty shapes and forms. Heavy, mushy, slush has fallen, along with light, fluffy flakes, freezing rain, flash snowstorms, thundersnow—the University has seen it all.

Penn center studies science behind baby language

When it comes to understanding speech, the world’s top tech companies are still playing catch-up with children.

New Bolton program marches students into practice

When students in the School of Veterinary Medicine graduate in May, some will go straight into jobs caring for livestock such as cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and alpacas.

Team Schoogle wins Penn policy challenge

A proposal that would enable principals in the School District of Philadelphia to use a mobile application to manage inventory and assets—resulting in significant annual savings—has won the Sixth Annual Penn Public Policy Challenge.

Renowned sculptor Patrick Dougherty returns to Morris Arboretum

Artist Patrick Dougherty is returning to the Morris Arboretum this month to construct one of his unique stick sculptures.

Penn Surgeon Makes Life-saving Donation to Ukrainian Children’s Hospital

By Madeleine Stone @themadstone

Learning to Lead at Penn

Beginning in her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, Dandi Zhu figured that being successful could only be helped by being around other women who wanted, as she did, to be leaders.That’s what drew her to Ware College House’s Women in Leadership residential program.

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