Campus & Community

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

Addressing these particular issues, where people—whether transgender, gender non-conforming, or non-cisgender—aren’t honored for being true to themselves, are at the root of Penn’s LGBT Center’s ongoing “Pronouns Matter” campaign, which started in October during LGBT History Month.

Although it’s only two years old, the Women in Physics club at Penn (WiP) has helped provide female undergraduate students with a support system through conferences, weekly undergraduate presentations, monthly luncheons, and annual lectures.

With the winter holidays just around the corner, there’s no better time to give. Across Penn’s campus, there are endless ways to get involved.

A Message to the Penn Community From President Amy Gutmann   I write to share some bittersweet news: this morning Duke University is announcing that it has selected our Provost, Vince Price, to be its next president, starting July 1, 2017.

Despite the busy pace of University life, Penn’s campus offers a multitude of places and ways to retreat and find quiet and solitude when it is desired, whether during a walk across campus, a lunch break, or an intentional period of brief meditation.

A significant amount of confidential data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other governmental entities will soon become available for free to Penn researchers who qualify because of the University’s part in establishing a new Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in Philadelphia.