4/16
Building a culture of voting
Ahead of the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, Penn Leads the Vote applies a ‘reverse doorknocking’ strategy of campus partnerships to get out the vote.
Adding (or subtracting) a spouse or partner? Changes can be made during Penn’s Open Enrollment
Class of 2024 President’s Engagement, Innovation Prize winners announced
Six from Penn elected 2024 AAAS Fellows
Former UN official on regressive gender-based policies
Honoring a life scientist’s life-saving science
Two Penn students awarded a 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Awarding Penn’s extraordinary staff
The Latest
Making study abroad accessible
Kristyn Palmiotto was named executive director of Penn Abroad in the fall. Here, she discusses what’s next for the program and her journey to the University.
Two Penn professors named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows
Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas of the School of Arts & Sciences are among 188 fellows chosen in the United States and Canada.
Bringing cognitive science in action to young minds
Penn Upward Bound high school students from West Philadelphia got a tour of the Penn Smart Aviary, GRASP Lab, and the Penn Vet Working Dog Center during a visit to Pennovation Works.
Patricia M. Ruiz joins the Wellness team as executive director of Student Health and Counseling
Ruiz, a certified advanced practice nurse with expertise in college health, will lead the student-facing clinical team and will oversee the medical care and behavioral health services.
Picturing artistic pursuits
Hundreds of undergraduates take classes in the fine arts each semester, among them painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, printmaking and animation, photography and videography. The courses, through the School of Arts & Sciences and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an art form in a collaborative way.
Inside Penn
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Video educates and connects men to prostate cancer screening options
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Cerianne Robertson named 2024-26 George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow
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Three things all new managers should be doing
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Penn Vet’s Dipti Pitta awarded grant to develop technology to mitigate methane emissions
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Transportation remains a big barrier to health care
From Leonard Davis Institute
Penn’s principles are the essence of who we are.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions
Ph.D. students Jacqueline Wallis and Afton Greco are embedded at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia, where they give philosophy lessons on curriculum-relevant topics and run an after-school Philosophy Club.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
At the edge of empires, Lauder students embark on odyssey through Georgia
As part of the Lauder Institute’s Lauder Intercultural Ventures program, graduate students traveled to Georgia, to the Russian border, and beyond, learning about wine, language, historical reckonings, and more.
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4/16
Investigating Homelessness
4/20
Earth Week 2024
This is a campuswide week of events, lectures, and volunteer opportunities designed to educate and inspire action related to environmental justice, climate, and nature-based solutions. This year’s theme is Restore & Regenerate.