During New Student Orientation, participants will have a chance to explore the Penn Libraries’ research materials, high-tech equipment, study spaces, and services that help students succeed. Open to Penn students and their families. Light refreshments will be served.
Penn graduate and professional students are invited to attend this guided walking tour of green spaces on campus. Participants can explore known and hidden gems for recharging, relaxing, and exercising. Attendees will also learn about on- and off-campus events and things to do in Philadelphia. Sunscreen and water bottles are encouraged. Registration is required. Meet in the Welfer Common Room at the Graduate Student Center. Must have a Penn graduate ID to attend.
Guided by Penn’s strategic framework, In Principle and Practice, Penn Forward launched in September 2025 with six working groups of faculty, staff, students, and postdoctoral scholars who challenged legacy assumptions and proposed bold, actionable strategies to advance Penn’s mission and strengthen operations.
Penn Forward’s initial nine priority initiatives aim to build trust with those we serve, enable bold discovery, and extend Penn’s geographic reach and impact across a lifetime. Learn more about these initiatives and follow along with Penn Today as Penn continues to drive forward.
“We find it in places where there is already organized opposition to data centers, [and] where there is not,” says Matthew Levendusky of Annenberg School for Communication, School of Arts & Sciences, and Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Successful early psilocybin trials have “...generated quite a lot of excitement for the treatment-resistant depression field,” says Anna Childress of the Perelman School of Medicine. “But also for things like trauma, post-traumatic stress… obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders and substance use disorders, which all have their own version of being stuck.”
"Now the benefits [of testosterone] apply only to men who have low testosterone, unequivocally low testosterone. The lower, the more likely are the benefits,” says Peter Snyder of the Perelman School of Medicine.
“There’s an aesthetic of this current administration that is young, beautiful and usually white. And so, I think this content feeds into that. It certainly validates it,” says Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser of the Annenberg School for Communication.