Campus & Community

Due to billions of dollars in losses, the federal government is threatening to close nearly 3,000 post offices across the country, but post office enthusiasts like School of Design graduate student Evan Kalish are doing what they can to try to keep them open, or at least chronicle their impact on American life.

With the holidays fast approaching, people across the country will be donating canned goods to schools, clubs and religious organizations to help support area food drives.

Joan C. Hendricks, the Gilbert S. Kahn Dean of Veterinary Medicine, and three other Penn alumnae have been named 2011 Women of Distinction by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? At the Penn Bookstore, gifts are glistening. A beautiful sight, on Dec. 8 and 9, walk into a winter wonderland of puzzles, games and, of course, books, at a 20 percent discount.    

Christopher Coleman, the Fagin Term Associate Professor of Nursing and Multi-Cultural Diversity in Penn’s School of Nursing, can remember the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic quite well.

Patrons returning an overdue book to the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center this month can get a break on their late fees while also helping Philabundance provide food for the less fortunate in the Philadelphia region.

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has ranked Penn one of the Top 10 most affordable private universities in the United States. Ranked sixth on the Kiplinger’s list, Penn was touted as offering outstanding academics at a reasonable cost. Princeton was ranked first among private universities, and three other Ivy League institutions—Yale (No. 2), Harvard (No.

A new statue at Franklin Field will honor Penn alum and NFL Hall-of-Famer Chuck Bednarik. Known as “Concrete Charlie,” Bednarik played for the Quakers from 1945 to 1948, and then for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1949 to 1962.