Campus & Community

PHILADELPHIA – A new book, The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads, provides a forward-thinking perspective on the future of university-community partnerships.  Coauthored by Rita Axelroth Hodges, assistant director at the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center

PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence and Philadelphia City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell have released a report assessing the city’s handing of domestic-violence ca

PHILADELPHIA — Passing one’s genes on to the next generation is a mark of evolutionary success. So it makes sense that the body would work to ensure that the genes the next generation inherits are exact replicas of the originals.

PHILADELPHIA — El Yunque rock is a majestic, anvil-shaped promontory that has been an icon of the island of Puerto Rico since pre-Columbian times. The barren rock, standing 3,412 feet high, protrudes above primary old growth forest and is enshrouded in clouds, swept constantly by the trade winds and frequently stricken by hurricanes.

Penn’s first dormitory building, “The Quad,” is one of the University’s most iconic structures, lending beauty and charm to the West end of campus. The Quad’s main structure was built between 1894 and 1929, in a late Tudor Gothic style designed by the Philadelphia firm Cope and Stewardson, headed by two faculty members at Penn. 

Faculty and staff with library fines—take note. Through November, Penn Libraries is sponsoring the “Food for Fines” program to benefit Philabundance. For each item donated, $1 will be credited towards a library account, up to a maximum of $20.

Mary Jo Daley, associate director of budget services in Penn’s Business Services Division, University Laboratory Animal Resources, now has a new job title: representative to District 148 in the Pennsylvania House.

For the sixth year in a row, Penn was ranked No. 1 in safety and security in the higher education sector, according to Security Magazine’s “Security 500” list. “We are so grateful to be recognized for the sixth year in a row by Security Magazine, as the No. 1 Public Safety organization in the country within the University Market,” says

It’s a win-win proposition: During the holiday season, users of the Penn Libraries can help fight hunger in the Philadelphia area while paying off their overdue library fines.