Campus & Community

Sho Hashizume, the co-ed team captain of the University of Pennsylvania’s Ping-Pong club, started playing table tennis at age 4. But for the first 10 years, he didn’t like it.

The University of Pennsylvania will honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with film screenings, lectures, workshops, panel discussions and musical performances during its 22nd Annual Commemorative Symposium on Social Change, Jan. 15-Feb. 2. 

The Modern Language Association of America has awarded prizes for scholarly work to two

 Will Torrence, a librarian at the South Philadelphia branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, offers far more than books to the local community. He fields questions all day long, a third of which are about health issues.

 It’s a common scene from an episode of a TV crime drama: A suspect is strapped to a polygraph machine. He sweats.

Since 1952, the Faculty Senate has served as a liaison to University administrators and an advocate for the faculty’s point-of-view. As the representative voice for every member of the standing faculty from all 12 schools—all 2,600 individuals—it is comprised of an executive committee and nine standing committees.

When Bettina Hoerlin, formerly an adjunct professor at Penn for 16 years, was a teenager, she met Italian physicist and Nobel Prize-winner Enrico Fermi on a Sunday hike with her father, Hermann Hoerlin, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

When asked to submit a proposal for a public art installation in Dublin, Calif., last year, the first thought Deirdre Murphy, a fine arts lecturer at PennDesign, had was “science.”