Campus & Community

Vice Provost for Research helps fund Pennovation Center memberships for Penn community

Since the Pennovation Center’s grand opening last fall, its three floors have been bustling with energetic thinkers and doers from across the region.

Understanding how the brain recognizes actions in the visual world

Humans can recognize an action like biting regardless of whether they see a man eating a sandwich or a dog gnawing on a bone. But what in the brain helps to explain the innate similarities of the two, and does this reasoning change depending on the visual cues?

Penn Dental research leads to treatment for rare gum disease

[vimeo]212253484[/vimeo]The New England Journal of Medicine ©2017A partnership between a School of Dental Medicine professor and a scientist at the National Institutes of Health, sparked by a chance meeting, has led to a successful new treatment for a rare genetic disorder.

Climate Change’s Weather Swings Bring Trials for Plants, Penn Experts Say

It was a lovely day on the University of Pennsylvania campus: sunny and 70 degrees. Students sunbathed and tossed Frisbees on College Green, near cherry trees on the verge of blooming. The only incongruity? It was still winter.

Abundance of A Cappella at Penn Strikes Harmony and ‘Dischord’

A cappella is in the midst of a renaissance at the University of Pennsylvania. With 17 individual, student-run organizations, 14 of which make up the A Cappella Council, known by the more tonal acronym “ACK,” the genre is thriving at Penn.

Penn study weighs instant gratification vs. more prosperous future

Given the choice between receiving $20 immediately or $40 a month from now, which would you pick?

Penn undergrads create an inclusive space for women in computer science

This past February, nearly 200 students from Penn, local universities, and high schools gathered together at Levine Hall and the Pennovation Center for a hackathon.

Enjoy outdoors in April for 30x30 Challenge

Back again for the fourth year is the Office of Sustainability’s 30x30 Challenge, encouraging all Penn students, faculty, and staff to spend at least 30 minutes outside for all 30 days in April.

Former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to keynote Perry World House conference

Urbanization, migration, and demographic changes in the world are transforming the human environment, creating both great challenges and opportunities.

Penn Vet launches new platform to accelerate microbiome research

Studies of the microbiome—the array of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms living in or on a given individual or environment—generate a lot of data.

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