Campus & Community

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.

He was brave and intelligent, loyal and true, affectionate and proud. He devoted his sole and only treasure and inheritance to the University of Pennsylvania—his whole life.”These are the words read aloud at the close of Albert Monroe Wilson’s funeral in 1904. Wilson, a native of Philadelphia, worked at the College of the University of Pennsylvania for 50 years.

In the six years she’s worked at Penn Law School, Emily Sutcliffe had never seen a response quite like what she witnessed on Monday, Jan. 30, the first weekday after the executive order on immigration.

It was 1957 when the late Albert “Mickey” Stunkard, a curious M.D. with a passion for studying weight and eating disorders, joined the Perelman School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.

Little black footprints track across the map drawn on worn fig-bark paper, marking the land boundaries in an ancient Mexican village.

What started with a Penn Libraries program to ensure a West Philadelphia elementary school library would remain open has turned into a sustainable model for service learning.

Five University of Pennsylvania seniors and one alumna have received 2017 Thouron Awards to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House has named its Inaugural Visiting Fellows and Visiting Scholars for the Spring 2017 Semester.