Campus & Community

Penn President Amy Gutmann recently unveiled an ambitious new initiative designed to raise an additional $240 million for undergraduate financial aid, bringing to $600 million the total amount of philanthropic support for undergraduate

On Saturday, March 29, Penn Dental Medicine’s student-run Philadelphia Oral Cancer Awareness Society will join students from Temple’s Kornberg School of Dentistry to present the 6th Annual Philadelphia Oral Cancer Walk & 5K. This event includes free community oral cancer screenings from 8 a.m. to noon.

Penn’s Division of Human Resources (HR) is supporting a research study aimed to help faculty and staff meet their health goals and incorporate fitness into daily life.

A quantitative understanding of evolutionary processes still stubbornly evades researchers across the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and computational mathematics.

John Legend, a nine-time Grammy Award-winning soul artist, philanthropist, and Penn alumnus, will deliver the address at the University's Commencement on Monday, May 19, Vice President and University Secretary Leslie Laird Kruhly recently announced.

Each year in the United States, about 2,600 babies are born with cleft palates, roughly 150,000 people are diagnosed with epilepsy, and nearly half a million babies are born preterm, which puts them at risk of respiratory failure.

From Feb. 3 through March 2, students, faculty, and staff across campus switched their mental light bulbs on to find creative ways to conserve electricity for Penn’s 2014 Power Down Challenge.

The night sky is beset with innumerable stars, equally dazzling and dim, intermittent asteroids, comets, and meteors, planets gaseous and telluric, and our inconstant moon that changes monthly in her circled orb. An array of these distant objects can be viewed with the naked eye, their supernatural beauty often evoking sublimed awe.

In 1899, amateur botanist John Morris and his sister Lydia built a “jewel” on the property of their summer estate, Compton.