Campus & Community

KWH summer program gives high schoolers a crash course in writing

This summer, Kelly Writers House will host its first intensive writing workshop for high school juniors and seniors.

‘Ageing’ phenomenon causes powerful earthquakes, report Penn researchers

Scientists have gotten better at predicting where earthquakes will occur, but they are still in the dark about when earthquakes will strike and how devastating they will be.

Ring in spring at Morris Arboretum

As winter wanes, visitors to Penn’s Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill can delight in seeing March’s blooming trees and plants ushered in by Mother Nature’s unseasonably high temperatures.

Penn Vet expertise serves and supports Pennsylvania farmers

When Bob Ruth of Clemens Food Group set up two swine farms in Pennsylvania in the mid-1990s, one of the first things he did was call Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine.

Penn Announces New Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy and the David S. Pottruck Fellows

The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $1 million commitment from alumnus David S. Pottruck to establish the Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy.

New Morris Arboretum in Motion Exhibit Features Kinetic Wind Sculptures

The Morris Arboretum is opening a new exhibit, Morris Arboretum in Motion, featuring more than 50 kinetic wind sculptures by artist Lyman Whitaker.

Penn Researcher Outlines the Path to Compromise in UKEXIT

Last summer Brendan O’Leary, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was in Ireland researching and writing his forthcoming book, tentatively titled Understanding Northern Ireland: Passages from Colonialism to Consociation and Confederation, 1603-201

Penn astronomer weighs in on the discovery of seven new exoplanets

Drowsy teens more likely to commit crime later in life, reports Penn criminologist

Penn Vet researchers find new promise for treating a tropical skin disease

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.

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