Campus & Community

Army honors Penn Vet for commitment to working dogs

Cynthia Otto, an associate professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine and director of Penn Vet’s Working Dog Center, wasn’t expecting the special package that was delivered to her office on a Tuesday morning in February.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Penn Prof on March Madness: Can Losing Lead to Winning?

PHILADELPHIA -- Is your March Madness bracket filled out yet?   Imagine you’re watching a close game.  As the teams head to the locker room at half time, only two points separate the two competitors.  Which team do you think is more likely to win?  The team down by one or the team up by one?

Jill DiSanto

PennCycle makes renting bikes on campus easier

Juniors Chris Cruz and Elizabeth Cutler, along with sophomores Alex Rattery, Madison Roberts, and Jenny Xia have joined together to form PennCycle, a program designed to make it easier for the Penn community to get around on bikes.

Penn Current Staff

Eggs and waffles

If you find yourself on campus on any given Saturday and you’re craving a bite to eat, head over to Houston Hall for brunch. Every Saturday from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., Houston Market now offers a wide selection of culinary options, all prepared from scratch, using fresh local foods.

Retirement and financial planning offered by Penn

Dear Benny:When it comes to finances, I’m always looking for assistance to get me on the right track. I know I need to learn how to manage my money better, but I’m at a loss. I don’t know how much money I should be setting aside, or how much money I’ll need to retire comfortably. What kind of financial planning is available to Penn employees?

For the Record: Fraternities and sororities

Both fraternities and sororities have played a significant role in student life at Penn for more than 150 years. Fraternities established chapters at Penn’s first campus in Center City Philadelphia, beginning in 1849. The motto of Psi Upsilon, one of the first Greek organizations at Penn, was: “To us has befallen a mighty friendship.”

Jeanne Leong

Putting a mystery to rest

Fifty-seven Irish workers set sail for the United States in April of 1832 to work at Duffy’s Cut, a Pennsylvania Railroad construction site in Malvern, a town about 20 miles outside of Philadelphia. The workers arrived in Philadelphia in June. By the end of August, they were all dead.

Greg Johnson

Open enrollment

From April 9 until April 20, Penn employees will have a chance to make changes in their health benefit choices.



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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