Campus & Community

The holiday season is a time when many people pause to give thanks and to give to charity. The University of Pennsylvania Center for High Impact Philanthropy has released an online guide filled with “handpicked opportunities” for donors to make a bigger difference with their charitable giving. The 32-page “2016 High Impact  Giving Guide” is available at http://www.impact.upenn.edu/.

Without Penn’s Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) program, Glenn Forte Jr., an Army veteran, says he wouldn’t “in a million years” be where he is today—working as an Independence Blue Cross financial investigator, and only a year away from earning his master’s degree from

Each time our body’s immune system responds effectively to an invading pathogen, such as a cold or the flu, it creates a population of T cells that “remember” the infection and can respond swiftly if the invader dares return.

A delegation of 24 students, faculty, and staff from Penn recently attended the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, better known as Habitat III.

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Many Americans will be relieved when the lengthy 2016 presidential race is finally over. The onslaught of political ads and wall-to-wall news coverage about the candidates has seemed never-ending.

Ten undergraduate students from the University of Pennsylvania are enrolled in a learning experience that brings healthy ideas to the West Philadelphia community. 

The University of Pennsylvania’s student-run volunteer Medical Emergency Response Team, MERT, will conduct a mass casualty incident field training exercise on Sunday, Nov. 20 at the Pennovation Works site, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Michael Leja, a history of art professor and chair of the history of art graduate group at the University of Pennsylvania says today’s standard of hyper-mediatized presidential campaigns started with the United States presidential election of 1840, the first in which images