Campus & Community

A quick, often imperceptible bite from a sand fly can transmit the dreaded parasitic disease leishmaniasis. No vaccine exists for the infection, which causes disfiguring and long-lasting skin ulcers.

Clues to creating new antibiotics may be hidden in a 15th-century medical text, now being studied by a medievalist at Penn.

Anne Holton, who has devoted her career to serving as an advocate for families and children, will deliver the opening keynote address at the University of Pennsylvania Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research’s sixth biennial conference, “

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey has been named the University of Pennsylvania’s 19th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective Jan. 1, 2018.  

Two years ago, the vision of Shadrack Frimpong, then a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, was to to open a girls’ school and health clinic in his home village of Tarkwa Breman, Ghana.

During the second half of the 19th century, Tihosuco, a small town in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, was at the center of the indigenous rebellion called the Caste War. Overwhelmed by economic hardships, constant and increasing taxation, repression by Yucatecos (the local population of European descent), and more, the Maya revolted against Mexico, hoping to

Dear Benny,I am new to the University and also its library system. What are the different ways to go about borrowing books? Can you explain the difference between BorrowDirect and E-ZBorrow?Sincerely,Brooke the bookworm

Lisa Servon remembers her family’s bank, Pulaski Savings and Loan, as a routine stop during errands on Friday afternoons or Saturday mornings. It was where her parents deposited their paychecks, and where she opened her first savings account at 7 years old.