Campus & Community

Effective Feb. 25, Thomas H. Murphy will become Penn’s new vice president for information technology and University chief information officer.

The Burrison Gallery is an entity of the University Club that provides a venue for artists within the Penn community to exhibit their work.

Penn commuters who use mass transit were already saving a bit more because of the recently approved American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Now, an amended section of the Act has increased the maximum monthly excludable amount for employer-provided transportation and transit-pass benefits. The amendment is effective retroactively, beginning on Jan.

As Penn’s top cop, Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush oversees six departments—including the Penn Police, Fire & Emergency Services, and Special Service

Penn faculty and staff are presumably in-the-know about the University’s tuition assistance programs for qualified personnel and their dependent children, but fewer employees may be aware that spouses and domestic partners migh

Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, calls his work, “‘CSI’ meets ‘Indiana Jones.’”

Conjure up an image of a forest. Chances are you’re imagining a vast tract of treed space seemingly untouched by humans. So why, then, did the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) open an office in the urban, heavily populated landscape of Philadelphia?

Everyone has heard of DNA, the blueprint for life. But if it were up to Brian Gregory, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, DNA’s close cousin, RNA, would get equal billing.

Many professors who embark on teaching a massive open online class, or MOOC, may be apprehensive about conveying their subject material to thousands.