Campus & Community

PHILADELPHIA — Breaking up is hard to do — and can be detrimental to one’s reproductive fitness, according to a new University of Pennsylvania study.

PHILADELPHIA — The School of Social Policy & Practice and the African-American Resource Center at the University of Pennsylvania will host “Let’s Talk About Race” Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 5 p.m. in the Claudia Cohen Hall Terrace Room.

PHILADELPHIA — With a new insight into a model of Parkinson’s disease, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have identified a novel target for mitigating some of the disease’s toll on the brain.

Guobin Yang has an unquenchable interest in the effect of digital media on society and social movements.  China, Yang’s homeland, has been quick to pull the censorship trigger on media of all sorts that report events the government construes as unfavorable.

While some Ivy League professors are clean-cut academics who wear suits with bowties and carry stacks of books from the library, others shatter that image.  Instead, some wear jeans and explore very dark, far-away places.  One of those researchers studies the underworld of the sex trade -- not just in Philadelphia but also in New York City and in India.

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Penn plans to celebrate the life and work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a series of events that bring together the University and the surrounding community.

After 125 years, Penn’s Mask and Wig club will once again honor its motto, “Justice to the stage and credit to the University,” with an original production that explores a time-traveling hero’s struggles to teach a society to value its members for more than their good looks.

Want to add 5 to 20 minutes to your life? Put that cancer stick down. Want to double your chances of living past 65? Stop smoking. Increase your chance of fertility? Stop smoking. Decrease your risk for coronary heart disease? Stop smoking. Stroke? Stillbirth? Preterm delivery? Low birth weight? Sudden infant death syndrome? Stop smoking, stop smoking, stop smoking, stop smoking.

When it became apparent that Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall’s iconic trellis along Locust Walk needed replacing, the hunt began to find a hard wood that would stand up to local temperature extremes and the punishment of wisteria vines. Ipe wood (pronounced ee-pay) salvaged from the reconstruction of the Coney Island boardwalk—pre-Hurricane Sandy—fit the bill.