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Deeply Rooted Collaborative awards more than $59K in ‘Community Green Grants’
A group of people standing on the sidewalk in front of a fence with a Clean, Green & Serene sign.

Volunteers with Clean, Green & Serene during a neighborhood cleanup event.

(Image: Penn Medicine News)

Deeply Rooted Collaborative awards more than $59K in ‘Community Green Grants’

The joint initiative from Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has awarded 21 grants to fund initiatives to fight food insecurity, community garden cleanup, education programming, and more.

Kelsey Geesler

Holman Biotech Commons meets the evolving needs of campus
close up image of the laser cutter at the biotech commons

A laser cutter is one of the newer services at the Judith & William Bollinger Digital Fabrication Lab in the Holman Biotech Commons, complementing the existing 3D printing service available to anyone at Penn.

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Holman Biotech Commons meets the evolving needs of campus

Resources at the Penn Libraries’ Holman Biotech Commons are available to the entire Penn community to support research, collaboration, and innovation.

Katherine Unger Baillie

How climate change affects roses
Rose garden view with ornamental planters.

A view of the rose garden at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens.

(Image: Rob Cardillo)

  • Q&A

    • How climate change affects roses

    In a Q&A, Erin Conley of the Morris Arboretum & Gardens explains how climate change affects rose growth, as well as what’s new in the Morris’ rose garden. 
    A legacy of leadership
    The outgoing dean sits in a chair in a lecture hall in the Graduate School of Education

    Outgoing Dean of the Graduate School of Education Pam Grossman.

    (Image: Stuart Goldenberg)

    A legacy of leadership

    Dean Pam Grossman has guided Penn’s Graduate School of Education through a capital campaign, a global pandemic, a historic building expansion, and unprecedented growth with ambition and compassion.

    From Penn GSE

    The history-making Law dean’s eight dynamic years
    Penn Carey Law School Dean standing in a hallway of the law school building

    Ted Ruger, outgoing dean of Penn Carey Law

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law)

    The history-making Law dean’s eight dynamic years

    During his tenure, Penn Carey Law School Dean Ted Ruger closed the largest gift ever to a law school, revitalized the faculty and the curriculum, and handled the pandemic masterfully.

    From Penn Carey Law

    ‘Ritual and Remembrance’
    two artists laughing with each other standing in gallery in front of wooden balusters on wall

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    ‘Ritual and Remembrance’

    Work by four artists in the current Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition, “Songs for Ritual and Remembrance,” uplift histories that have been repressed and underrepresented, including those of enslaved people and oppressed laborers.
    Ancient food and flavor
    Four people outside looking at a wood planter box filled with plants

    The Penn Museum’s new exhibition, “Ancient Food & Flavor,” is both inside and outside, with planter boxes featuring crops from four countries in a courtyard. The exhibition was co-curated by the Museum’s Chantel White (left), who discussed the plant choices with visitors during a recent tour.  

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    Ancient food and flavor

    Food remains dating back as far as 6,000 years found at archaeological sites are now on view in a new indoor-outdoor exhibition at the Penn Museum, “Ancient Food & Flavor,” through the fall of 2024. 
    Celebrating community at Penn’s 267th Commencement
    students cheer at the end of commencement

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    Celebrating community at Penn’s 267th Commencement

    Thousands of students and their biggest supporters—those who President Liz Magill described as “force multipliers”—flooded campus Monday for a sunny ceremony for the ages.