Campus & Community

National Bike to Work Day gets underway on Friday, May 20, and Joy Cannon, a researcher at Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, is inviting fellow bicyclists to sign up for this year’s Commuter Challenge.

The Key, WXPN’s online site focusing on Philadelphia’s best local music, has launched a new audio stream called “Songs In The Key Of Philly: Volume 1,” featuring two hours of new local music selected by WXPN’s Helen Leicht and Y-Rock on XPN hosts John Vettese, Kate Bracaglia and Jake Rabid.

Leanne McCarron’s typical day is so packed her schedule looks like that of two people.

Seth Dunipace, a 2011 Penn Vet graduate, is the first veterinary student in more than 15 years to be awarded the prestigious Fulbright research grant. He will be spending the 2011-2012 academic year studying and conducting research in Denmark.

Penn’s School of Nursing and the School of Nursing at Peking University in Beijing have established a Memorandum of Understanding, creating a partnership and a formal research relationship between the schools.

With the recent rise of magnet schools, charter schools, online learning and home schooling, coupled with a heated national debate about the funding of public schools and public school teachers, Practice Professor James “Torch” Lytle of Penn’s

WHAT: If you’ve walked around the University City neighborhood in recent months, you’ve probably noticed the chain-link fencing keeping people out of the “A” section of Clark Park. In early June, the fences will come down, and this section of the park will reopen to the public.

PHILADELPHIA —The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Penn’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library a grant of $300,000 to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web a collection of approximately 1,000 European and American manuscripts from 1601 to 1800.

 PHILADELPHIA -– The University of Pennsylvania is among 114 colleges and universities named to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with distinction by the Corporation for National and Community Service.  Penn was cited for its outreach to the West Philadelphia community.