Campus & Community

When you picture Africa, what do you see? Do you see a vast, fertile continent home to some of the world’s oldest and most advanced civilizations? Or do you see a country filled with corruption, AIDS and ethnic strife?

Veterinary ophthalmologists at the School of Veterinary Medicine recently took on a special case involving a pair of snow leopard cubs born in captivity at the Philadelphia Zoo.

PHILADELPHIA — Ralph Brinster of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has received the National Medal of Science.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. was on campus on Tuesday, Oct. 18 to discuss community safety and the economy with first responders from around the Delaware Valley. [youtube]http://youtu.be/JDrqU9ohBVQ[/youtube]

The Daily Pennsylvanian has called her Penn Basketball’s resident “Bubbe.” Other students know her as their academic advisor.

“Now batting, for the University of Pennsylvania, number 1740, catcher, Benjamin Franklin.”

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-choo! Hear that? (Sniffle, sniffle) Feel an itch in the back of your throat? (Cough, cough) It’s right around the corner (or it may already be here): Flu season!

Historian Richard Beeman’s professional life can be divided into three chapters of academic success. The first was as a teacher and academic scholar: He joined the Penn faculty in 1968 as an assistant professor of history, was promoted to associate professor in 1973 and became a full professor in 1982.