Campus & Community

Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center and Center for Dairy Excellence Form Partnership

The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s New Bolton Center and the Center for Dairy Excellence have signed a memorandum of understanding to formally recognize their partnership to h

Four Penn Basketball Fans Paint the Town – and Themselves -- Red (and Blue)

Andrew Wynne, Robert Sharp, Joost Charlow and Ike Newman, four loyal sports fans from the University of Pennsylvania, attended every home basketball game and started a new tradition during the 2011-12 season, giving a new meaning to “body art.”

PennSmiles Has Local Children Grinning from Ear to Ear

Kids in West Philadelphia sure do have a reason to smile. For more than a decade, the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine has been providing oral health education, screenings and primary dental care to children at local schools and community agencies.

African Independence Film Screening to Open Penn Africana Studies Conference

The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Africana Studies and Center for Africana Studies are co-sponsoring an Oct. 17-18 conference on the future of Africana studies to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the department.

Voyages and volcanoes star in Museum series

The Penn Museum’s collection of captivating lecture series aim to examine popular—and occasionally obscure—topics and explore them with academic expertise.

Penn prof’s comic opera plays at Barnes Foundation

Pair Shakespearean poetry and Italian Renaissance painting with 21st-century video games and an international art fair and you get “Biennale: A Comic Opera,” a new multimedia production co-sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum.

Basser Center spreads awareness about BRCA cancers

The Basser Research Center for BRCA, part of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, has a full lineup of outreach efforts this autumn, many coinciding with October’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Wharton/Penn Engineering Y-Prize goes global

Last year, the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s GRASP lab and the Wharton School’s Mack Institute helped take cutting-edge robots out of the lab and into the marketplace through the

A year later, Penn a ‘powerhouse’ in open learning

In June 2012, Penn opened its digital doors to students across the globe with the launch of the University’s Open Learning Initiative. A year later, there’s a lot to celebrate.

Penn Humanities Forum Presents “Biennale” Comic Opera at Barnes Foundation

If you pair Shakespearean poetry and Italian Renaissance painting with 21st century video games and an international art fair, you get “Biennale: A Comic Opera,” a new multimedia production co-sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum.

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