Campus & Community

Ashley Blake’s family has gone through a lot.

For University of Pennsylvania senior Olivia Route, some of the most exciting and enriching experiences she’s had as a student have happened while studying abroad.

The key to a successful cancer surgery is to extract every last bit of the tumor. If any cancerous cells are left behind, they could cause the disease to reappear in the same place or close by later on. Imagine how useful it would be if the malignant tissue glowed bright green, practically shouting, “Cut me out, I’m dangerous!” Turns out, it can.

Today, students register for classes through the Penn InTouch system, but long before this service was available, they had to show up in a campus office to choose, change, or drop a class.

From her light-filled office atop 113 S. 36th St., Wendy White jokes about the stresses of being a lawyer. It’s different day-to-day and week-to-week, she says, and a particularly difficult issue she’s working on in the morning often turns into a completely different obstacle by lunchtime.

The start of the fall semester brings an abundance of opportunities for the public to hear from preeminent members of Penn’s faculty.

A dash of Picasso, a dose of William Blake, a formative boyhood in the Bronx, and a never-ending imagination stirred with artistic vigor formed William Steig, one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed cartoonists and children’s book authors.

It’s easy for Nancy Peter to love her job, she says, because she created it herself. In 2003, after a career wearing hats such as environmental educator, school programs coordinator, education director, curriculum manager, and policy specialist, Peter had the idea to create a resource center that would help the types of educational staff she had been involved with herself.

On Wednesday, Sept. 17, Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs (OGCA) is offering a variety of ways for we the people of Penn to celebrate National Constitution Day, more than two centuries after the Founding Fathers first signed the document on Sept. 17, 1787.

China is playing an increasingly important global role economically, socially, and culturally, and has become a significant focal point for researchers and students at Penn.