Campus & Community

Dear Benny,I recently learned that a student from Haverford College has been taking a Quechua language course at Penn, since her college didn’t offer the particular class. She mentioned that Haverford and Penn have a reciprocal agreement for course credit and tuition.

Almost daily, Patricia Rose finds herself quoting education specialist Tony Wagner: “The world doesn’t care what you know.

Following the sack and storm of Rome in 410 C.E., a defeat worshippers of Roman gods blamed on Christianity’s ban on polytheism, St. Augustine defended the Christian faith with furious zeal in his treatise, “Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans,” or “City of God.”

  It’s an image unlike many others, revealing what looks like a tranquil state from afar but representing a dangerous border: The Korean Demilitarized Zone.   Contemporary photographer Atta Kim’s powerful print, which he exposed for eight hours, is displayed in Penn’s new

Cigarette smoking among adults may have dropped in recent decades—from 42 percent in 1965 to 17 percent in 2014, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS)—but tobacco use remains the leading cause of death and disease in the world. On campus, while few students smoke daily, around 20 percent report smoking socially.

A global movement that started as a trending topic on Twitter several years ago has returned. #GivingTuesday falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, this year on Nov. 29. It is a day when individuals are encouraged via social media to make online charitable donations to organizations.

GARDEN STATE: Randolph, N.J.’s Clare Mullaney, a Ph.D. student in the Department of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, was recently awarded a 2016 Irving K. Zola Prize for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies from the Society for Disability Studies.

For more than two decades, Susan B. Sorenson of the University of Pennsylvania has taught courses about and conducted research on two controversial, hot-button issues: violence against women and gun violence.

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann joined the Division of Public Safety for the Fall Commendation Ceremony to celebrate the work and dedication of 35 public-safety and law-enforcement professionals, along with Penn’s partners serving the community.