Campus & Community

At 7 p.m., four nights a week, roughly 6,000 children across the Philadelphia area who could be settling in front of big-screen televisions, texting over their telephones or gazing into computer screens, choose instead to do something that children of the 1930s and 1940s once did: tune in to their favorite radio show.

The 27th annual Philadelphia International Children’s Festival takes over the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts from Thursday, April 7, to Saturday, April 9, with a fiesta that is open to children of all ages, but is geared toward ages 3 to 12.

Penn President Amy Gutmann will deliver the keynote address on the importance of civility in public discourse as part of the National Constitution Center’s (NCC) “Can We Talk? A Conversation about Civility and Democracy in America” forum, set for Saturday, March 26, to Sunday, March 27.

Penn’s Sustainable Purchasing Initiative has added two new programs—Green Alternatives and Reusable Delivery Totes—to help the University reach its Climate Action Plan goals of carbon reduction and waste minimization.

Whether you’re a serious athlete or you play sports just for fun, there are many opportunities to participate in sports at Penn. The University’s Department of Recreation offers students, faculty and staff the chance to play in 38 sports clubs that focus on everything from aikido to water polo.

Winners of Penn’s 2011 Models of Excellence Awards will be honored at a ceremony and reception on Thursday, March 31, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA -- Penn InTouch, the secure online gateway for University of Pennsylvania students to their profiles and academic, financial and contact information, is now available as a mobile application.