A study led by doctoral student Jiaying Liu and professor Dolores Albarracín of the Annenberg School looks at barriers keeping young adults from HIV counseling.

Dr. Larry Gladney, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence has been named Associate Dean for Natural Sciences, effective July 1, 2014.

Jennifer Jones Clinkscales really gets people talking.  As an undergraduate athlete at the University of Pennsylvania, she gained prominence as a part of the first team to bring home the women’s Ivy League basketball championship title, during the 2001-02 season.  After earning her degree in history from Penn in 2003, she had a calling. She knew that she enjoyed working with people and she wanted a meaningful profession that could offer many different ways to help others.

Antonia Villarruel has been named dean of The School of Nursing effective July 1, 2014. 

Wendell E. Pritchett, chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden and a former University of Pennsylvania Law School professor, will return to the Penn faculty as a Presidential Term Professor. Pritchett’s appointment to the Law School begins July 1; he is stepping down as Rutgers-Camden’s Chancellor in June.

John Legend, a nine-time Grammy Award-winning soul artist, philanthropist and Penn alumnus will deliver the address at the University of Pennsylvania’s Commencement on Monday, May 19.

Dafan Zhang, a says people often tell him that he’s lucky. Just years ago, he had been homeless, living in 30th Street Station, and working odd jobs. But Zhang, a third-year Penn Law student and alumnus of the Fels Institute of Government, says he’ll be drawing on more than luck as he launches his first political campaign for Pennsylvania’s 164th Legislative District seat.

After hearing Arab music for the first time at a wedding a couple of years ago, University of Pennsylvania senior Idress Syed was so enthralled with the sounds that he soon began taking drumming lessons in the Arab Music Ensemble percussion class at Penn.

Penn alumnus Raynard Kington, president of Grinnell College, says U.S. colleges are “woefully unprepared” for dramatic shifts in student demographics that are ahead.

For one University of Pennsylvania doctoral student, promoting increased access to education around the globe led to an unanticipated title: award-winning photographer.  Nathan Castillo, who is enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development program in Penn’s Graduate School of Education, works with developing nations to enhance their education delivery systems. The simple black-and-white image, that Castillo says he snapped “by chance,” took the grand prize for the inaugural Penn GSE Summer Photo Contest.