Campus & Community

For the holiday season, Penn Volunteers in Public Service is sponsoring a University-wide gift/toy drive and is also encouraging departments to “adopt” a deserving family in lieu of holding office gift exchanges.

For the fifth year in a row, Penn has been awarded the No. 1 spot in Security magazine’s “Security 500” list for the higher education sector.

  What first-hand knowledge do West Philadelphia middle school students have about whales? Probably not much, considering the scarcity of whales in the area. New Jersey’s Adventure Aquarium doesn’t have any on display, nor does Baltimore’s National Aquarium. (Although there was that time a beluga whale made its way up the Delaware River.)

Without the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia’s theater landscape would look vastly different.

Sporting images of both the Penn shield and the Penn Athletics’ split P, one of the University’s newest structures has caused a lot of rubbernecking lately.

Food trucks on and around campus serve thousands of hungry people everyday, providing quick, tasty and inexpensive sustenance for time-crunched students, faculty and staff.

On the blustery afternoon of Friday, Nov. 8, under a tent set up on Hill Field, the Penn community gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new college house—what President Amy Gutmann called a “living, learning community.”

In the 1980s, former Penn professor Catherine “Kaki” Marshall noticed a campaign in major Canadian cities to provide quality theater festivals for children. Impressed by their efforts, Marshall decided to mimic the campaign in the United States.

Penn has prominent works of art on display around campus, including Claes Oldenburg’s “Split Button” outside the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture on College Green. But the University also holds some lesser-known pieces in its 6,000-item art collection.