Campus & Community

Three years ago, when, as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, Winfred Rembert III promised himself that he’d make time to volunteer, he had no idea that promise would lead to him to marketing breakfast bars.

The Penn Biden Center will have a significant impact on Penn’s teaching and research missions and will be focused principally on diplomacy, foreign policy, and national security.

Cory A. Booker, United States Senator from New Jersey, will deliver the address at the 2017 University of Pennsylvania Commencement on Monday, May 15.The announcement was made today by Vice President and University Secretary, Leslie Laird Kruhly.

 Junior David Thai, a first-generation student at the University of Pennsylvania, is used to working hard, taking responsibility and navigating disappointment and change.

President Trump’s recent Executive Order is injurious to our work and inimical to our values.

To:         Penn Students, Faculty, and StaffFrom:    Provost Vincent Price              Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli              Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel

University of Pennsylvania senior Lucy Chai of Acton, Mass., has received a Churchill Scholarship from the Winston Churchill Foundation.  She is among 15 recipients of the honor, awarded annually to American students to fund a year of master’s study in science, mathematics and engineering

Invasive species are typically a bane to land managers, who often devote considerable time and expense to controlling or removing them. But a new study of coastal dunes at New Jersey’s Island Beach State Park finds that one invasive plant, Asiatic sand sedge (Carex kobomugi), which grows on beach dunes, has at least one redeeming quality.

Michael Weisberg, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences, is aiming to take a deep analytical look at our current political landscape with the half-day conference “

Each spring for the last six years, the Philadelphia Science Festival has turned the city into one big classroom, with lively, entertaining, and hands-on lessons.