Campus & Community

Dear Benny, How do the drivers of Penn’s shuttle buses know the best route to take when they’re dropping off passengers in the neighborhood? It seems like there’s the potential to waste a lot of gas as drivers drop off people at their various destinations.—Concerned about conservingDear Concerned,

The Penn Green Campus Partnership has awarded five more Green Fund grants to projects that range from a comprehensive recycling center to water conservation.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one-third of all adults in the United States have untreated tooth decay, and dental cavities affect American children more than any other chronic infectious disease.

Until recently, delivery and public transit vehicles making stops on campus to load and unload cargo and passengers have had to double-park, blocking bike lines along main thoroughfares. 

The buzz of high-powered chainsaws and the pounding of heavy construction machinery can be heard around the Arts Research and Culture House (ARCH) building this summer as the structure undergoes an extensive renovation.

Call them the daring dozen. As part of Penn’s new partnership with the start-up online education platform called Coursera, 12 professors have agreed to be the first to venture into the unchartered waters of large-scale cyber teaching.

In the past dozen years, Andrea Gottschalk has coordinated exhibitions for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library as wildly diverse as a historical perspective of the comic strip and a look at education in the age of Ben Franklin.

Pen-and-ink drawings by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, originally satirizing the upper class, wound up having a profound influence on popular culture in the early 1900s, with both men and women aspiring to become a Gibson Girl or Gibson Man.

PHILADELPHIA -- Visiting music meccas around the world is as close as that radio dial with the “Sense of Place” series on WXPN- FM’s “World Cafe.”

  Stop what you’re doing, and just write. That’s what some University of Pennsylvania faculty will be doing the week of June 4.