Campus & Community

A comprehensive dental visit includes more than a cleaning and X-rays; well-trained dentists know they must also take a thorough look inside the oral cavity to spot any potentially unusual lesions that could signal oral cancer.

Some paleontologists travel far and wide to seek new fossils — to the desert Southwest of the United States, remote regions of China or the farthest tip of Argentina. University of Pennslyvania student Jack Stack, on the other hand, made his first paleontological discoveries much closer to home.At home, in fact.

On a recent afternoon at the University of Pennsylvania, Robb Carter explored domestic violence using an unusual approach.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Business Services has been awarded the 2017 Edwin R. Golden Award for Inclusive Excellence from the National Association of College Auxiliary Services.

A boat glides across the Schuylkill River, rowers working in unison to part the water with red and blue paddles.

Two University of Pennsylvania seniors have been awarded Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Christopher D’Urso, of Colts Neck, N.J., has been awarded an American Rhodes and Adnan Zikri Jaafar, of Malaysia, has been awarded a Malaysian Rhodes.

For some people, experiencing a racial encounter can be so stressful that it’s as if they are facing a tsunami or a venomous snake. The episodes can be as minute as an inadvertent microaggression, or as malignant as being pelted with rocks and called the N-word.

Founded in 2011, the University City District’s West Philadelphia Skills Initiative connects employers seeking talent to unemployed West Philadelphia residents looking for work.

Those who continue to binge eat while trying to lose weight drop about half as much weight as those who don’t binge eat, or those who do and then subsequently stop.

Dear Benny,I’m interested in working at Penn and was wondering if you could tell me how I can apply? Do you have to be on some sort of special list? Do you have to know somebody? I’ve heard so many different things. And where are the jobs advertised? Please explain.— Job-Seeker Joan