Jill DiSanto

As it has done for 25 years, Penn Volunteers in Public Service has provided as much as $1,000 in non-tuition scholarships to college-bound students from West Philadelphia high schools who were chosen based on community service and academic excellence.

With the hopes that their children would receive a better education, the parents of University of Pennsylvania student Alisha Chowdhury left Bangladesh the year before she was born and settled in New Orleans. 

Even before coming to the University of Pennsylvania, Hannah Fagin knew she wanted to study the humanities, but she knew she had found her major after her first history course at Penn, “History of the American South.” 

Politicians’ race-conscious speeches have broad, and sometimes unexpected, consequences, according to a new book from Daniel Gillion of the University of Pennsylvania. 

The University of Pennsylvania’s commitment to civic engagement is a model example that’s now being shared with higher education leaders around the world. 

Through modern technology, the University of Pennsylvania brings the idea of “summer school” to a new level, by offering open online courses to English-language learners around the globe. 

The University of Pennsylvania’s all-grant aid program provides financial accessibility to an Ivy League education for a broad and diverse student body attracted to the rigorous academic community. Helping students facing the unique challenge of living with a disability is another way Penn is helping break down barriers. 

Two professors from the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania has named Herman Beavers and the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance as the recipients of the inaugural Netter Center Faculty-Community Partn

University of Pennsylvania political scientist Diana Mutz, music professor Timothy Rommen and theoretical