Campus & Community

It was a lovely day on the University of Pennsylvania campus: sunny and 70 degrees. Students sunbathed and tossed Frisbees on College Green, near cherry trees on the verge of blooming. The only incongruity? It was still winter.

A cappella is in the midst of a renaissance at the University of Pennsylvania. With 17 individual, student-run organizations, 14 of which make up the A Cappella Council, known by the more tonal acronym “ACK,” the genre is thriving at Penn.

Given the choice between receiving $20 immediately or $40 a month from now, which would you pick?

This past February, nearly 200 students from Penn, local universities, and high schools gathered together at Levine Hall and the Pennovation Center for a hackathon.

Back again for the fourth year is the Office of Sustainability’s 30x30 Challenge, encouraging all Penn students, faculty, and staff to spend at least 30 minutes outside for all 30 days in April.

  Urbanization, migration, and demographic changes in the world are transforming the human environment, creating both great challenges and opportunities. 

Studies of the microbiome—the array of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms living in or on a given individual or environment—generate a lot of data.

The former vice president sat down with Penn President Amy Gutmann on March 30 for a conversation on the United States’ role in global affairs. Throughout the discussion, Biden aimed his remarks at the audience of students—who he called “the most generous generation in American history.”

Even though it is not a part of her own cultural heritage, University of Pennsylvania junior Kristen Pearson began learning the art of Irish stepdance when she was 11.

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann announced today the selection of eight undergraduates as recipients of the 2017 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes.  Awarded annually, the President’s Engagement and Innovation Prizes provide $100,000 in funding for Penn seniors