Campus & Community

The Pennsylvania Punch Bowl has been basking in satirical humor almost every year since its founding in 1899.

“You have the potential to save someone’s life,” Philippi says. “How do you say no to that?”

Nearly two years out from the first awarding of the University of Pennsylvania President’s Engagement Prizes, communities in the United States and around the world are beginning to reap the benefits.

When Madison Dawkins, a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, was growing up, she learned to feel empowered as a woman. From kindergarten on, she attended an all-girls school in Bryn Mawr, Pa., near her hometown of Wynnewood.

Rare-earth metals are a key component in many modern technologies, yet mining and purifying them is not only expensive and labor-intensive, but devastating to the environment. “Everybody’s heard of blood diamonds,” says Eric Schelter, an associate professor in the

 When it comes to treating HIV/AIDS, antiretroviral drugs such as protease inhibitors can present a double-edged sword.  “Protease inhibitors are very effective antiviral therapies, but they do have inherent toxicities,” says Kelly Jordan-Sciutto

Like most Ph.D. students looking for answers to outstanding questions, Zachary Cohen relied on academic papers and an online community of peers.

 When a 2010 study touted that making a power pose—like a Wonder Woman stance with hands on hips and shoulders back—for just two minutes before an important encounter could boost confidence by increasing certain hormones, it made quite the splash.  In the ensuing years, however, numerous researchers have tried to replicate those findings, to no

Every day, thousands of people use SEPTA's trains, trolleys, and buses to travel to and from Penn’s campus for work or school.

When Penn archaeologist Josef Wegner and colleagues first came across structures buried deep beneath the sand in the Egyptian city of Abydos, they anticipated finding more evidence of a pharaoh cemetery