Campus & Community

On Friday, Nov. 11, a group Black freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania received racist text messages via a GroupMe account based in Oklahoma, to which they had been added without their knowledge.

The University of Pennsylvania has received a $20,000 grant under the American Cancer Society and CVS Health Foundation’s Tobacco-Free Generation Campus Initiative. The award, timed to coincide with the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 17, recognizes the University’s ongoing efforts to create a tobacco-free campus culture.

Update on Racist Messages Directed to Penn StudentsFrom Amy Gutmann, PresidentVincent Price, Provost and Craig Carnaroli, Executive Vice President 

An Update to the Penn Community on Racist Messages Directed at Penn Students From Amy Gutmann, President Vincent Price, Provost and Craig Carnaroli, Executive Vice President  

 For men in the United States, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer after skin cancer, and the second leading cause of death from cancer.

Students writing papers or conducting research in the humanities or social sciences often encounter a problem in the primary sources on which their textbooks are based—a problem that is not talked about much at all.  Ancient primary sources that are available to historians represent the world of the elite, the wealthy, and the powerful.

To a bird flying over Philadelphia, Penn appears as something of an oasis. The lush landscaping of the campus offers sources of food, water, and shelter, resources that are especially attractive to migrating species that pass through the city during their long-distance jaunts up and down the Atlantic Flyway during the spring and fall.

With nearly 8 million speakers throughout the Andes, Quechua is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas. In the world, that number rises, making it as prevalent as Swedish or Hebrew. Yet, it’s unrecognizable to most people, and even declared by UNESCO as an endangered language.

WHO:  Toorjo Ghose    

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/.