Campus & Community

Penn is stepping up its commitment to sustainability by introducing a new and paperless way to get your pay.Beginning this spring, the University will stop issuing paper paychecks. Employees will instead have the choice of receiving their pay through either direct deposit or the new ADP TotalPay Card system.

In a White House announcement earlier this month, President Obama urged college presidents to undertake what he calls “The President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge” during the 2011-12 academic year.

PHILADELPHIA -- From an applicant pool 18 percent higher than last year, the University of Pennsylvania has offered admission to 3,880, or 12.3 percent, of 31,659 students who applied for the Class of 2015.   Last year Penn received 26,940 applications and admitted 3,840.

PHILADELPHIA — Students from the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, will don bright blue t-shirts and converge on 30th Street Station to talk with travelers and passersby about social work and how social workers can help them. Also participating in the 8 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA – As the first institution to take part in Philadelphia’s Creating Canopy program, the University of Pennsylvania is partnering with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department to distribute to faculty and staff homeowners in the city 300 free trees to plant on their property.             

A UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy has been established at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. The first of its kind at a U.S. school of education, the UNESCO Chair will focus on achieving UN Millennium Development Goals in the area of basic education and literacy in the poorest countries of the world.

PHILADELPHIA –University of Pennsylvania graduate students Yoonhee Patricia Ha and Yin Li are among 30 students from across the United States awarded 2011 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Both are enrolled in Penn M.D./Ph.D. programs.

PHILADELPHIA -- Two recent renovations on the University of Pennsylvania campus have been certified LEED Gold this month by the U.S. Green Building Council: The School of Arts and Sciences’ Music Building at 202 S. 34th St., and Joe’s Café, a new eatery in the Wharton School’s Steinberg-Dietrich Hall.

WHAT: The Woodlands is a 45-acre site is a cemetery and landscaped grounds that offers walking and biking paths and a splendid example of a Neoclassical mansion, renovated in the 1780s by Philadelphia resident William Hamilton.

Coach Al Bagnoli is a winner. The George A.