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Campus & Community
Fight hunger and erase library fines
Patrons returning an overdue book to the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center this month can get a break on their late fees while also helping Philabundance provide food for the less fortunate in the Philadelphia region.
Safe and secure
For the fifth year in a row, Penn has been awarded the No. 1 spot in Security magazine’s “Security 500” list for the higher education sector.
Ranked ‘most affordable’
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has ranked Penn one of the Top 10 most affordable private universities in the United States. Ranked sixth on the Kiplinger’s list, Penn was touted as offering outstanding academics at a reasonable cost. Princeton was ranked first among private universities, and three other Ivy League institutions—Yale (No. 2), Harvard (No.
Providing cover for foul-weather workouts
Sporting images of both the Penn shield and the Penn Athletics’ split P, one of the University’s newest structures has caused a lot of rubbernecking lately.
Annenberg Center celebrates four decades of advancing the performing arts
Without the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia’s theater landscape would look vastly different.
Football hero
A new statue at Franklin Field will honor Penn alum and NFL Hall-of-Famer Chuck Bednarik. Known as “Concrete Charlie,” Bednarik played for the Quakers from 1945 to 1948, and then for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1949 to 1962.
A bus minus a whale equals a new look at math
What first-hand knowledge do West Philadelphia middle school students have about whales? Probably not much, considering the scarcity of whales in the area. New Jersey’s Adventure Aquarium doesn’t have any on display, nor does Baltimore’s National Aquarium. (Although there was that time a beluga whale made its way up the Delaware River.)
For the Record: The Kiosk Quick Lunch
Food trucks on and around campus serve thousands of hungry people everyday, providing quick, tasty and inexpensive sustenance for time-crunched students, faculty and staff.
Penn Celebrates Groundbreaking of New College House
On the blustery afternoon of Friday, Nov. 8, under a tent set up on Hill Field, the Penn community gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new college house—what President Amy Gutmann called a “living, learning community.”
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
How did a white woman come to write the newest definitive text on Philadelphia’s Black history?
Penn alum Amy Jane Cohen is profiled for her new book “Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape,” which examines Black history through the lens of events, institutions, and individuals across the city. The book includes a reflection from Penn chaplain Charles Howard.
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WHYY (Philadelphia)
Homeward bound: When a Penn Medicine nurse was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she turned to the service dogs she helped to train
A profile highlights Maria Wright of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, from her volunteer work connecting people with service dogs to her cancer diagnosis and her own journey applying for a service dog.
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India West
UPenn to confer honorary doctorate on Siddhartha Mukherjee
Celebrated physician and best-selling author Siddhartha Mukherjee will deliver the address at the 2024 University of Pennsylvania Commencement, featuring remarks from Interim President J. Larry Jameson.
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The Washington Post
College internships matter more than ever — but not everyone can get one
Almost 90% of students who graduated from Penn in 2023 completed an internship during college. Barbara Hewitt of Career Services says that the race to get talent early has resulted in a focus on getting early practical experience through many ways in students’ academic careers.
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The Wall Street Journal
Harvard University applications fall by 5%
Penn received more than 65,000 undergraduate applications for the Class of 2028, the most in its history.
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