Campus & Community

Building the American dream on the Vegas Strip

From its bright lights and loud music to its supersized buildings, there’s nothing quite like the Strip in Las Vegas. What was just a century ago a ghost town now draws tens of millions of tourists each year.

Field Center at Penn Identifies Risk Factors Making Homeless Youth Vulnerable to Sex Trafficking

The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania joined forces with Covenant House, an agency dedicated to helping homeless youth, and Loyola University’s Modern Slavery Research Project to conduct a

Antoinette Zoumanigui and Selamawit Bekele of Penn to Educate Youth in Senegal

In the streets of Senegal, young boys beg for food and money, but two students from the University of Pennsylvania are working to address this issue through Project Y.V.E.T.A.,

140 Years of Women’s Voices at Penn

Women began attending Penn in 1876, nearly a century before most Ivy League peers became co-ed. Now 140 years later, Penn is home to a dynamic female president, eight female vice presidents, and world-renowned female scholars and researchers.

Penn’s Alliance for Understanding Retraces Civil Rights History in the South

Earlier this spring, a group of Penn students immersed themselves in history in order to gain a deeper understanding of the struggle for civil rights and equality.

Psychology Professor Angela Duckworth to Give Penn’s 2017 Baccalaureate Address

Angela Duckworth, the Christopher H.

Upcoming Penn symposium tackles obesity, hunger, and other food policy

Public discussion about food policy often lands on either end of a wide spectrum, with obesity, overeating, and unhealthy diets on one side, and hunger and food insecurity on the other.

Reflect and refresh as Open Enrollment season nears

Every year, Open Enrollment gives Penn employees a chance to make changes to their benefits elections. Open Enrollment for 2017-18 runs from Monday, April 17, through Friday, April 28. Updates made will take effect Saturday, July 1.

Penn researchers investigate how zebra finches teach themselves songs

Music can be a powerful form of expression. It’s especially important for songbirds such as zebra finches, which learn the songs of their fathers in order to court mates.

‘Upcycling’ art exhibit featured at Arthur Ross Gallery

In the entrance to Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery is a work of art made with more than 350 shoes in concentric rings of color, creating the impression of a giant chrysanthemum, the center made of bright yellow pumps with black soles.

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