Campus & Community

Daniel Gillion, University of Pennsylvania assistant professor of political science, has won the American Political Science Association Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section’s 2014 Best Book Award for The Political Power of Protest: Minority Activism and Shifts in Public Policy.

LOVE Park in Center City—home to Robert Indiana’s iconic, red, LOVE sculpture with the tilted “O”—will be undergoing a makeover in the next few years, and PennPraxis, the research arm of PennDesign, is partnering with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and the Fairmount Park Conservancy to ga

As chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology in the Perelman School of Medicine, Lynn Schuchter spends much of her time in the clinical setting working with melanoma patients. But on Saturday, Oct.

Like many children coming of age, Wharton sophomore Allyson Ahlstrom didn’t care for hand-me-downs. But instead of simply following the latest fashion trends, at age 14, Ahlstrom decided to blend her love of fashion with her desire to help others.

Less than three months into his deanship of Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), John L. Jackson, Jr. is embarking on an 11-city U.S. tour to plant the seeds of social change.

Each semester, top collegiate hackers from around the world convene in Penn’s Engineering quad for a weekend of nonstop coding. PennApps, the nation’s largest and most prestigious student-run hackathon, marked its 10th edition on Sept. 12-14, with more than 1,200 student hackers.

As the dean of Harrison College House at the University of Pennsylvania, Frank Pellicone is well known, but it’s his dog, Elvis, who is the big star in the building.“He’s a bit of a character and people come to look for him,” says Pellicone.

Robin Williams’ performance in “Dead Poets Society” inspired Carl McLaughlin to become a teacher. Now a student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, the 27-year-old from Northeast Philadelphia is on his way to inspiring the next generation.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program and Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women have appointed a new director, Nancy J.

The University of Pennsylvania will participate in National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Penn joins more than 1,000 organizations across the country in this one-day coordinated initiative to increase voter registration and voter education.