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Alumni Weekend highlights tradition, learning and fun

    • Alumni Weekend highlights tradition, learning and fun

    During Alumni Weekend 2011, scheduled for May 13 to 16, Penn will welcome back former students from a few years ago, a few decades ago and even more than half a century ago.

    Tanya Barrientos

    Staff Q&A with Eric Baratta

    • Staff Q&A with Eric Baratta

    Eric Baratta’s first theatrical role, back in his high school days, was in Shakespeare’s classic play, “Macbeth.” Not a bad first experience on the stage. But Baratta didn’t play the Scottish king. His debut was much more modest.
    Q&A with David L. Cohen

    • Q&A with David L. Cohen

    Through the years, Philadelphians have used a number of different adjectives and phrases to describe one of the city’s most high-profile and powerful adopted sons, David L.
    Penn’s Field Center to Hear Bill Cosby as Keynote Speaker at “One Child, Many Hands” Conference

    • Penn’s Field Center to Hear Bill Cosby as Keynote Speaker at “One Child, Many Hands” Conference

    PHILADELPHIA — The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania announced today that Bill Cosby will serve as the opening keynote speaker for its fourth biennial conference, “One Child, Many Hands: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Child Welfare,” J

    Jill DiSanto-Haines

    PennMOVES in need of University volunteers

    • PennMOVES in need of University volunteers

    PennMOVES, the University’s sale of donated clothing and household items from students heading home for summer break, has made a few new moves of its own.

    Julie McWilliams

    Morris Arboretum plant sale blooms in May

    • Morris Arboretum plant sale blooms in May

    Gardeners, rejoice. Spring is ushering in longer days, beautiful blooms and the highly anticipated Morris Arboretum Annual Plant Sale. 

    Jacquie Posey

    Swing into spring with Penn events aplenty

    • Swing into spring with Penn events aplenty

    Spring is in full swing, a time to go outside and enjoy sunny skies, cool breezes and the many springtime events Penn has to offer between now and the end of the semester.

    Jeanne Leong

    University of Pennsylvania Receives $15 Million Gift to Enhance Student Life and Learning

    • University of Pennsylvania Receives $15 Million Gift to Enhance Student Life and Learning

    PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $15 million gift from an anonymous donor to renovate the historic Arts, Research and Culture House, to create a center for campus life that builds on the cultural diversity of Penn students and offers a rich intellectual and social experience for the entire University community.

    Jeanne Leong