Campus & Community

Provost Vincent Price and Edward Rock, director of open learning initiatives, announce a new round of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to be offered through the University’s partnership with Coursera.

Philly nonprofits looking for support for innovative arts and culture projects can get a boost from a new grant program from the University City District. The Porch Partnership Programming Fund is a three-round, $150,000 grant-making effort for local organizations seeking to facilitate arts and culture projects at The Porch at 30th Street Station.

Tickets are now on sale for WXPN’s annual summertime music extravaganza, the XPoNential Music Festival, which will run from July 26-28. The Festival, held at Wiggins Park in Camden, N.J., features three days of music with performances by more than 20 established and emerging artists.

Penn Vet’s Ryan Hospital has been designated by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care as one of nine Veterinary Trauma Centers in the country, and the only 24/7 center within a 100-mile radius of Philadelphia.

One million and counting. That’s the number of open online learning course enrollments Penn reached this month, less than a year after the University offered the first classes with the online learning platform Coursera.

[flickr]72157633364662905[/flickr] Lentil is a French bulldog puppy with a mission. Born with bilateral cleft lips and midline cleft palate, Lentil, at three months old, is nevertheless a “total pistol” who “rules the house,” according to his foster mom Lindsay Condefer.

Around 100 years ago, the Korean peninsula was forgotten by the rest of the world—literally forgotten, lost in the might of the Japanese Empire. Almost as soon as Korea began opening its ports in the late 19th century, entering into relations and signing modern treaties with various nations around the globe, the peninsula was colonized by Japan.

ALOHA STATE: From Hawaii, rising senior Economy, 21, is the second-oldest of her five siblings. An international relations and economics major, she grew up on the Island of Hawaii, also known as the Big Island.

Two University of Pennsylvania professors have won the chance to pursue their research full-time this fall.

WHO:             Jonathan Shepherd, director of the Cardiff University Violence and Society Research Group