Campus & Community

The eight Penn students chosen for the President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes this year have demonstrated “immense grit, creativity, and leadership,” with projects to take on challenges that “couldn’t be more pressing,” said

Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S.

Halfway through Anea Moore’s first semester as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, she lost her mother to a heart attack, just months after losing her father to lung disease. Through that grief, she has found a way to heal by reaching out to help others.

Under the umbrella of the Theater Arts Council, TACe, students at the University of Pennsylvania, have the opportunity to bask in the limelight, both behind and in front of the curtain.

University of Pennsylvania professor Nancy Hirschmann studies how disability and feminism intersect from a unique perspective, that of a political theorist.

On April 24, a consortium of student groups at the University of Pennsylvania hosted the 2017 Campus Diversity Awards to honor individuals and groups who have made outstanding contributions to promoting diversity and inclusion in the academic, cultural and social life at Penn.

Dubbed the “cradle of civilization,” the land that encompasses present-day Syria and Iraq has witnessed the beginning of agriculture, the invention of writing, and the foundation of the first cities and states. The region’s rich cultural heritage, with a history that spans millennia, is truly that of the world.

Penn’s 300-acre campus in West Philadelphia boasts nearly 7,000 trees from more than 200 species.

Dogs have occupied a place of importance in human life and culture dating all the way back to their domestication some 15,000 years ago. Yet up until the last few decades, rigorously collected scientific information about man’s best friend was relatively difficult to come by.

At the annual tradition that marks the official passage of the junior class to senior status, participants joyfully marched down Locust Walk to College Green, holding bamboo canes and donning Styrofoam hats.