Campus & Community

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?

Owl Monkey Twins Give Penn's Eduardo Fernandez-Duque Insight Into Monogamy

PHILADELPHIA -- In 15 years of studying owl monkeys in Argentina, this was a first: Late last November, Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, assistant professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, got news from his field assistants that they had spotted a

Katherine Unger Baillie

PennCycle Launches Pilot Bicycling Program

PHILADELPHIA – PennCycle, a University of Pennsylvania student-led shared bicycle pilot program housed in Penn Student Agencies, will host a kick-off event Friday, March 16, from noon to 4 p.m. at Hill Field, 34th and Chestnut streets.

Jill DiSanto



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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