Campus & Community

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

By Madeleine Stone  @themadstone

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.

University of Pennsylvania junior Roderick Cook believes that it’s important for those in positions of privilege and power to redistribute resources to help marginalized communities in Philadelphia and beyond.

Blake Harwood first developed a passion to learn languages in high school as a teenager in Highland Park, Ill. when she won a scholarship to study Arabic in Cairo for six weeks in a foreign exchange student program.

The design development for the new Pennovation Center has received approval from the University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees. This 58,000-square-foot, three-story facility is located in the heart of the Pennovation Works, Penn’s 23-acre site along the southern bank of the Schuylkill River and adjacent to the University campus.

The University of Pennsylvania announced today that it has authorized a $206 million financial-aid budget for 2015-16 — the largest in the University’s history — while increasing total undergraduate charges by 3.9 percent.

It’s an exciting time for digital humanities studies at Penn. The School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) has announced plans to establish a new research lab dedicated to the emerging field.

February is American Heart Month, a time for focusing on cardiovascular health. Heart disease remains the No. 1 killer of American men and women. But humans aren’t the only species affected; dogs also develop cardiovascular problems.

Writing a dissertation may be a marathon rather than a sprint—but that doesn’t mean the process of sitting down to write needs to be the equivalent of a solitary run.