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Penn offers free health screenings for West Philadelphia community

Penn offers free health screenings for West Philadelphia community

Despite a growing number of people covered by health insurance due to the Affordable Care Act, routine health care remains difficult to access for many individuals in the United States, including right here in Philadelphia.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Geophysicists study creep and flow of rivers

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.

Madeleine Stone

Penn President and Penn Libraries Host Lea School Students

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

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.
New Bolton program marches students into practice

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.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Team Schoogle wins Penn policy challenge

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.

Jacquie Posey