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Campus & Community
Penn dentists to provide free care to underserved Philadelphians
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one-third of all adults in the United States have untreated tooth decay, and dental cavities affect American children more than any other chronic infectious disease.
Staff Q&A with Andrea Gottschalk
In the past dozen years, Andrea Gottschalk has coordinated exhibitions for the Rare Book & Manuscript Library as wildly diverse as a historical perspective of the comic strip and a look at education in the age of Ben Franklin.
Green thinking
The Penn Green Campus Partnership has awarded five more Green Fund grants to projects that range from a comprehensive recycling center to water conservation.
Parking changes help create safer streets
Until recently, delivery and public transit vehicles making stops on campus to load and unload cargo and passengers have had to double-park, blocking bike lines along main thoroughfares.
Penn reaches thousands online with Coursera
Call them the daring dozen. As part of Penn’s new partnership with the start-up online education platform called Coursera, 12 professors have agreed to be the first to venture into the unchartered waters of large-scale cyber teaching.
For the Record: Penn ‘College Girl’ postcards
Pen-and-ink drawings by illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, originally satirizing the upper class, wound up having a profound influence on popular culture in the early 1900s, with both men and women aspiring to become a Gibson Girl or Gibson Man.
Student cultural centers and CURF relocated for ARCH renovations
The buzz of high-powered chainsaws and the pounding of heavy construction machinery can be heard around the Arts Research and Culture House (ARCH) building this summer as the structure undergoes an extensive renovation.
Penn and Cornell Researchers Spearhead the Development of New Guidelines for Veterinary CPR
PHILADELPHIA — For nearly 50 years, the American Heart Association, with the help of researchers and physicians from across the nation, has developed and disseminated guidelines on how best to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on patients experiencing cardiac arrest. But no such evidence-based guidelines existed in the veterinary world.
WXPN’s ‘Sense of Place’ Series Takes Listeners on Musical Journeys; Next Stop: New Orleans
PHILADELPHIA -- Visiting music meccas around the world is as close as that radio dial with the “Sense of Place” series on WXPN- FM’s “World Cafe.”
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
How did a white woman come to write the newest definitive text on Philadelphia’s Black history?
Penn alum Amy Jane Cohen is profiled for her new book “Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape,” which examines Black history through the lens of events, institutions, and individuals across the city. The book includes a reflection from Penn chaplain Charles Howard.
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WHYY (Philadelphia)
Homeward bound: When a Penn Medicine nurse was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she turned to the service dogs she helped to train
A profile highlights Maria Wright of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, from her volunteer work connecting people with service dogs to her cancer diagnosis and her own journey applying for a service dog.
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India West
UPenn to confer honorary doctorate on Siddhartha Mukherjee
Celebrated physician and best-selling author Siddhartha Mukherjee will deliver the address at the 2024 University of Pennsylvania Commencement, featuring remarks from Interim President J. Larry Jameson.
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The Washington Post
College internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one
Almost 90% of students who graduated from Penn in 2023 completed an internship during college. Barbara Hewitt of Career Services says that the race to get talent early has resulted in a focus on getting early practical experience through many ways in students’ academic careers.
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The Wall Street Journal
Harvard University applications fall by 5%
Penn received more than 65,000 undergraduate applications for the Class of 2028, the most in its history.
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