Campus & Community

Penn’s Office of Government and Community Affairs (OGCA) is recruiting volunteers to help at six of the eight polling places on campus for the Pennsylvania primary election on Tuesday, May 16. To qualify, individuals must be registered to vote in Philadelphia and be available to work from 6:30 a.m.

Youth leaving foster care lack traditional family resources to help them apply for public benefits, school, or even a job.

Back for its 32nd year is the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ Children’s Festival.

The eight Penn students chosen for the President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes this year have demonstrated “immense grit, creativity, and leadership,” with projects to take on challenges that “couldn’t be more pressing,” said

Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S.

Halfway through Anea Moore’s first semester as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, she lost her mother to a heart attack, just months after losing her father to lung disease. Through that grief, she has found a way to heal by reaching out to help others.

Under the umbrella of the Theater Arts Council, TACe, students at the University of Pennsylvania, have the opportunity to bask in the limelight, both behind and in front of the curtain.

Dubbed the “cradle of civilization,” the land that encompasses present-day Syria and Iraq has witnessed the beginning of agriculture, the invention of writing, and the foundation of the first cities and states. The region’s rich cultural heritage, with a history that spans millennia, is truly that of the world.

Penn’s 300-acre campus in West Philadelphia boasts nearly 7,000 trees from more than 200 species.

Dogs have occupied a place of importance in human life and culture dating all the way back to their domestication some 15,000 years ago. Yet up until the last few decades, rigorously collected scientific information about man’s best friend was relatively difficult to come by.