Campus & Community

The unusually high temperatures have made it feel more like spring than winter in recent days. People who enjoy milder weather love it, but it’s causing some concern for gardeners, and plenty of confusion for some plants, which have bloomed several weeks earlier than usual.

A chance encounter at a New York City dress shop with the chief of The Huffington Post, has led to Penn’s Leslie Mellet, associate vice president in the Office of the University Secretary, authoring a motivational blog on the popular internet site.

Teaching students who are on the path to becoming physicians is nothing new at Penn. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the United States and has been training doctors for almost 250 years.

A cavalcade of high school students will be on campus next week, but they’re not coming for the usual college tour. It is Asia Day at Penn on Tuesday, Feb. 28.

The odds of a high school athlete making it to the pros are miniscule, but for the select group of elite players who have the potential to play at the professional level, the Wharton School and the NFL are partnering to give them a leg up on how to handle business and life issues.  

As a university located in one of America’s largest cities, it seems fitting that Penn should have an institute dedicated to all things urban.

WHO:            Romeo Dallaire, former commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda

PHILADELPHIA — Four University of Pennsylvania faculty members are among this year’s Sloan Fellowship recipients. Since 1955, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has granted yearly fellowships to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them the next generation of scientific leaders.

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania today reaffirmed its commitment to an all-grant, no-loan financial-aid program as its Board of Trustees authorized a $181 million financial-aid budget for 2012-13 while increasing total undergraduate charges by 3.9 percent, the second lowest in 44 years.  

PHILADELPHIA -- Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, has been re-appointed chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues by President Obama.  She has served in the position since first being appointed by Obama in 2009.