The 40-plus year history of "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" is being permanently preserved by the Annenberg School for Communication. The complete collection of scripts was a gift to Penn from Agnes Nixon, the creator of the ground-breaking soap operas. Read more...   

Beginning next week, more than a dozen students, staff and faculty from Penn's Department of Biology will begin an arduous trek into the steppes of Northern Mongolia as part of the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for International Research and Education. Read more...     

National Bike to Work Day gets underway on Friday, May 20, and Joy Cannon, a researcher at Penn's Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, is inviting fellow bicyclists to sign up for this year's Commuter Challenge. Sponsored by the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, the Challenge is a free and friendly three-month competition that encourages people to bike or walk to work, and help reduce carbon emissions. Read more...

If you've walked in the University City neighborhood in recent months, you've probably noticed the chain-link fencing keeping people out of the "A" section of Clark Park, located between Baltimore and Chester avenues. In early June, the fences will come down, and this section of the park will reopen to the public. Improvements to the park include a widening of some sidewalks and a reconfiguring of some walkways. Read more...