Campus & Community

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

 Will Torrence, a librarian at the South Philadelphia branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, offers far more than books to the local community. He fields questions all day long, a third of which are about health issues.

 It’s a common scene from an episode of a TV crime drama: A suspect is strapped to a polygraph machine. He sweats.

Since 1952, the Faculty Senate has served as a liaison to University administrators and an advocate for the faculty’s point-of-view. As the representative voice for every member of the standing faculty from all 12 schools—all 2,600 individuals—it is comprised of an executive committee and nine standing committees.