Campus & Community

Fulbright Scholar

Seth Dunipace, a 2011 Penn Vet graduate, is the first veterinary student in more than 15 years to be awarded the prestigious Fulbright research grant. He will be spending the 2011-2012 academic year studying and conducting research in Denmark.

Q&A with James H. Lytle

With the recent rise of magnet schools, charter schools, online learning and home schooling, coupled with a heated national debate about the funding of public schools and public school teachers, Practice Professor James “Torch” Lytle of Penn’s

Tanya Barrientos

Local favorites

The Key, WXPN’s online site focusing on Philadelphia’s best local music, has launched a new audio stream called “Songs In The Key Of Philly: Volume 1,” featuring two hours of new local music selected by WXPN’s Helen Leicht and Y-Rock on XPN hosts John Vettese, Kate Bracaglia and Jake Rabid.

Out & About: Clark Park upgrade

WHAT: If you’ve walked around the University City neighborhood in recent months, you’ve probably noticed the chain-link fencing keeping people out of the “A” section of Clark Park. In early June, the fences will come down, and this section of the park will reopen to the public.

Heather A. Davis

Joining efforts

Penn’s School of Nursing and the School of Nursing at Peking University in Beijing have established a Memorandum of Understanding, creating a partnership and a formal research relationship between the schools.

Penn Libraries to Digitize 17th- and 18th-Century Manuscripts

PHILADELPHIA —The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Penn’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library a grant of $300,000 to digitize and make available on the World Wide Web a collection of approximately 1,000 European and American manuscripts from 1601 to 1800.

Nancy Shawcross

Penn Recognized Nationally as a Top School for Community Service

 PHILADELPHIA -– The University of Pennsylvania is among 114 colleges and universities named to the 2010 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with distinction by the Corporation for National and Community Service.  Penn was cited for its outreach to the West Philadelphia community.

Julie McWilliams

Commencement 2011

Under gray, overcast skies, nearly 6,000 graduates of the University of Pennsylvania’s 12 schools marched down Locust Walk and into Franklin Field for Monday’s 255th Commencement ceremony.



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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