Campus & Community

Staff Q&A with Dennis Pierattini

Above classrooms, galleries, and professors’ offices on the fourth floor of Meyerson Hall sits a room filled with table saws, sanders, hand tools, metal bandsaws, a 3-D printer, and laser cutter.

Heather A. Davis

Penn professor uses ‘tower-power’ to preserve vaccines

Late one night in 2010, Harvey Rubin received an email from his neighbor, the actor David Morse, perhaps best known for his work in the films “The Negotiator,” “The Green Mile” and “16 Blocks.” Morse was watching television coverage of the Haitian earthquake, and wondered why his friend, Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn, was attending to a child dying of diphtheria.

Evan Lerner

Penn becomes first Ivy to partner with KIPP schools

Chevon Boone’s story is the sort of against-all-odds tale they make TV movies about. She grew up in the tiny rural town of Garysburg, North Carolina, about a six-hour drive from Penn and the Ivy League. Yet for Boone and other underserved kids in Garysburg, that stretch of highway may as well have been an ocean.

Mike Unger

‘Trans friendly’ campus

In the August issue of The Advocate, Penn is listed among the magazine’s picks for the nation’s “Top 10 Trans Friendly Colleges and Universities.” Earning a score of five out of five possible stars for demonstrating “a commitment to the trans community by implementing many trans-supportive policies,” Penn is cited as one of the most supportive campuses for LGBT students in America.

Bike lane moves to the left for public safety

To the left, to the left. Everybody in a bike lane, to the left. Cyclists once cruised down the University City section of Walnut Street on the right side of the road, facing dangerous traffic obstacles and creating potential safety risks whenever SEPTA and LUCY buses dropped off or picked up passengers.

Jill DiSanto

Getting a crash course in cow care and feeding

Wear washable boots. That may be one of the most important tips offered to a group of 19 incoming Penn Vet students who took part in a three-day seminar introducing them to the daily care of dairy cows.

Tanya Barrientos

Penn’s South Bank: 23 acres of pure potential

  In 1863, the Harrison Brothers chemical company purchased land at the corner of 34th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue. By the early 1900s, the plant was mixing paints and producing sulfuric acid, and employed hundreds of people in South Philadelphia.

Heather A. Davis



In the News


Philadelphia Inquirer

Scholars at risk in their own countries find a new home at Penn

Penn Global’s Scholars-at-Risk program is featured. Global’s Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Scott Moore, Penn Carey Law’s Eric Feldman, and Wharton’s Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, along with former and current scholars Angel Alvarado, Pavel Golubev, and Jawad Moradi are interviewed.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn will remain SAT optional for the next admission cycle

Penn will remain standardized test optional for the 2024-25 admissions cycle, with remarks from Dean of Admissions Whitney Soule.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making

Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods says that the interment of 19 Black Philadelphians at Eden Cemetery represents a reckoning with the Museum’s colonial past and an act of reconciliation with the local community.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Here’s what these youth advocates have to say about Philly’s truancy problem, and how they would fix it

The Netter Center for Community Partnerships has more than 30 years of investment in connecting resources that address truancy, such as establishing after-school programming.

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6ABC.com

Chinatown residents brainstorm different ideas for Fashion District instead of proposed 76ers arena

Rashida Ng of the Weitzman School of Design and colleagues attended the Save Chinatown Coalition to propose different ideas besides the 76ers arena for Philadelphia’s Fashion District.

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