Campus & Community

Penn kicks off its 261st Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 15, at 10:15 a.m. at the historic Franklin Field.

Jere R. Behrman, a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Population Studies Center, has received the biennial Irene B. Taeuber Award of the Population Association of America.

It’s a Monday night and dozens of Penn students are flooding into a West Philadelphia church basement. In the fellowship hall, amongst a piano, tiny stage, and kitchen, students eagerly set up tables, chairs, and portable carrels, sift through paperwork, and lay out medical supplies.

Four faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences for “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

Three years ago, University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann launched the Penn Center for Innovation with the goal to provide infrastructure, leadership and resources to transfer promising Penn inventions, know-how and related assets into the marketplace for the public good.   

On Saturday, May 6, 20 horses will have the chance to compete in the 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby. Like all athletes, these elite Thoroughbreds—under the care of their trainers and owners—must walk the line between rigorous training and injury. And one of the most feared conditions in horses is laminitis, a debilitating disease that affects the tissue connecting bone to hoof.

Kieran Dunne, a Penn grad student, remembers his first trip last year to White Sands National Monument, a desert in New Mexico, as part of Earth & Environmental Science (EES) professor

Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs (OGCA) is recruiting volunteers to help at six of the eight polling places on campus for the Pennsylvania primary election on Tuesday, May 16. To qualify, individuals must be registered to vote in Philadelphia and be available to work from 6:30 a.m.

Youth leaving foster care lack traditional family resources to help them apply for public benefits, school, or even a job.

Back for its 32nd year is the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ Children’s Festival.