Campus & Community

In the late 19th century, women began to seek out professional opportunities for themselves in new ways. One of the most visible—and critical—was the nursing profession.

Penn’s Way is back again, and running through Friday, Nov. 10. This year’s charitable giving goal is $1.6 million.“It’s a challenging goal,” says Maureen Rush, the campaign’s co-chair. “But it’s attainable.”

The University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House has been awarded a two-year $498,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York for research and programming to impact critical emerging global policy issues. 

Seven University of Pennsylvania faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. They are among 70 new U.S. and 10 international members of the globally renowned organization.

Since its founding in 1992 as the first academic research center in the United States focused on modern India, the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) has connected academics, policymakers, and business leaders from America and India while nurturing a new generation of young scholars of contemporary

A new exhibition on campus explores public disengagement through the famous faces of celebrities illustrated by cartoonist, commentator, and Annenberg School lecturer Dwayne Booth—who goes by the pen name “Mr. Fish.”  

Much is known about family systems in high-income countries like Sweden and the United States, such as how decades of sweeping demographic, economic, and social change have radically transformed family structures, gender roles, and intergenerational bonds. But Hans-Peter Kohler, the Frederick J.

Starting Monday, Oct. 16, and running through the end of the week, Penn’s Office of Sustainability will host its fifth “ReThink Your Footprint” campaign.