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Through the PURM internship program, Julia Youngman and Eric Tao had the opportunity to work in neuroethologist Marc Schmidt’s lab studying the neural basis of courtship behaviors in songbirds.
In a Q&A, Barbara Hewitt of Career Services explains why it’s helpful to understand industry trends, cultivate a wide skill set, and trust that the right opportunity will emerge.
New students traveled from near and far Tuesday, settling into College Houses, meeting their roommates, and spending precious moments with family.
With students arriving on Penn’s campus this week to move into the College Houses, Penn Today has compiled links to resources and statistics about the campus Move-In experience.
This summer, rising second-years Audrey Keener and Nicholas Eiffert worked in the lab of Penn linguist Jianjing Kuang studying vowel articulation in song, running an in-person experiment and built a corpus of classical recordings by famous singers.
The staff at the PennCard Center is preparing thousands of official IDs for new students at the start of the 2022-23 school year.
Penn Today offers a practical guide to undergraduates preparing to move into College Housing between Aug. 22 and 28.
Barbara Kahn, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School, says high inflation makes back-to-school spending harder for families.
Rising College of Arts and Sciences second-year Chaily Derecskey is a summer intern with Play On Philly, a nonprofit that provides orchestral instrument instruction to Philadelphia school children.
In a new book, sociologist Camille Z. Charles explores the multifaceted identities of Black college students.
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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Penn received more than 65,000 undergraduate applications for the Class of 2028, the most in its history.
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Penn will remain standardized test optional for the 2024-25 admissions cycle, with remarks from Dean of Admissions Whitney Soule.
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Scott Toney, a Wharton School fourth-year and pole vaulter from Mountainview, California, recently broke the Penn program record in a tribute to Marc Toney, his late brother and fellow pole vaulter.
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Masterman junior and Youth Olympics speedskater Lucas Koo, the son of Hyun (Michel) Koo of the School of Dental Medicine, hopes to attend the Wharton School after graduation.
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David Meaney of the School of Engineering and Applied Science oversees an undergraduate bioengineering lab that uses cockroach legs to teach students to work with human prostheses.
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