Campus & Community

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.

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.