Campus & Community

For much of her life, Amanda Barrett Cox wanted to understand how people use the privilege they were born into or later acquire.

On Thursday, Jan.

The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks didn’t just take the lives of nearly 3,000 people, they also irreversibly affected the lives of tens of thousands more, including survivors, victims’ families, first responders, and recovery workers.

In a city that lays claim to the nation’s largest Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, Penn not only hosts a day of community service on the holiday, but also presents more than two weeks worth of events to honor King’s legacy. Now in its 22nd year, the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price are pleased to announce the appointment of Jay Gottfried as the University of Pennsylvania’s eighteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge University

Nearly 60 years ago, Cody Clouser’s grandparents were among those who founded the Philadelphia Curling Club in Paoli, Pa.

In the December issue of the American Journal of Public Health, Ira Harkavy of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that universities should be doing more to solve problems in nearby urban communities, including poverty, r

Sho Hashizume, the co-ed team captain of the University of Pennsylvania’s Ping-Pong club, started playing table tennis at age 4. But for the first 10 years, he didn’t like it.

The University of Pennsylvania will honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with film screenings, lectures, workshops, panel discussions and musical performances during its 22nd Annual Commemorative Symposium on Social Change, Jan. 15-Feb. 2. 

The Modern Language Association of America has awarded prizes for scholarly work to two