Graduates are ready to serve and engage at home and abroad
Members of Penn’s 269th graduating class will channel their expertise and passions to serve and work in Philadelphia and around the world, from teaching to research, poultry farming, and basketball.
How the Annenberg School connected all the dots for Naima Small
The Class of 2025 communications major was drawn to studying social media and culture, how gender is portrayed online, and the role of technology in perpetuating bias. ‘I loved how Annenberg enabled me to not only see the diversity of ways I could use my degree, but also learn from people who had much different academic interests than me.’
The 134-year-old Fisher Fine Arts Library Building designed by famous Philadelphia architect Frank Furness is undergoing a 20-month refurbishment of its façade.
Penn fourth-year and three recent alumni named 2025 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
The scholarship provides financial support for as long as three years to pursue a graduate degree and global leadership training at Stanford University.
What behavioral strategies motivate environmental action?
A collaborative study from researchers affiliated with the Annenberg School for Communication, Annenberg Public Policy Center, and School of Arts & Sciences tested 17 strategies in an ‘intervention tournament.’
Penn Alumni will reunite with classmates at events like Franklin Fest, will stroll down Locust Walk during the Parade of Classes, enjoy the Alumni Picnic, attend panel discussions, raise a toast to Dear Old Penn at reunion celebrations, and attend an all-alumni brunch and memorial service, among numerous other activities.
Saturday’s Alumni Parade brought to Locust Walk—even in the rain—more than 1,000 guests from all reunion years.
Alumni Weekend: Fisher Fine Arts Library Open House
Alumni are invited to explore the Fisher Fine Arts Library, including guided tours of the building and a chance to check out the Penn Fine Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Light fare will be served.
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.
Using behavioral economics-based interventions, a 2025 President’s Engagement Prize-winning project will address health and nutrition inequities in a West Philadelphia elementary school.
Penn lends support to Rebuilding Together Philadelphia effort repairing 11 local homes in two days
Marking a milestone block build, 70 Penn volunteers combined forces with Rebuilding Together Philadelphia, a nonprofit with roots at the University, to revitalize owner-occupied houses in the West Philadelphia community. The momentous two-day event involved a block build and speaking program—with a local homeowner sharing a heartfelt message.
Supporting a community for learning, research, and thriving
Four months after the launch of the Office of Religious and Ethnic Interests (Title VI), the office is combating discrimination in all forms while leading educational efforts about dialogue and adaptive leadership.
AI Across Disciplines event highlights the power of ‘breadth and connectivity’ at universities
At a cross-disciplinary gathering at Amy Gutmann Hall, the Penn community celebrated the launch of the Penn AI Initiative with a panel discussing AI research at Penn—and writ large.
How tech companies could shrink AI’s climate footprint
Benjamin Lee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that it’s more efficient to cool off a hot computer through liquid cooling rather than blowing air through the entire machine.
Those credit card ads aren’t just annoying — they’re costing you money
Itamar Drechsler of the Wharton School says that most acquisition of credit card customers happens directly and without a branch, which explains why American Express is the biggest spender on marketing.
