Now in its fifth year, Black Music City continues to celebrate Philadelphia’s legacy of Black music and culture by investing in the future of its creatives. Attendees can enjoy performances from several visionary Black artists, including a special “bop dance” presentation.
A highly beloved train can always be found chugging along in his own section of the Morris Arboretum Garden Railway, but a few weekends a year he and his friends run free on all the tracks. This kid-friendly program is a great weekend activity for the whole family. Free with general admission.
Penn’s guiding principles are the University’s enduring values and distinctive strengths: anchored, inventive, interwoven, and engaged. The practices support and strengthen Penn’s core educational mission.
At Penn Today, we focus on some of the ways the University is putting this framework into action. From student, faculty, and staff profiles to research updates and event coverage, Penn Today highlights the latest examples of the University’s principled approach to excellence.
Coach Gilly Lane comments on the success of collegiate squash.
Penn received 72,544 applications and admitted 4.9% of its applicants for fall 2025, its most selective year in history, according to Dean Whitney Soule of Admissions.
A study by Christian Terwiesch of the Wharton School and colleagues finds that the results of generative AI brainstorming can be surprisingly alike with just slight variations, limiting the pool of diverse responses.
Elizabeth (Zab) Johnson of the Wharton School says that color is entirely the process of human neural machinery.