Undergraduate Students

I lived like a monk for 48 hours, and it helped me break three of my worst habits—here’s how

Justin McDaniel of the School of Arts & Sciences explains the benefits of his class “Living Deliberately,” which requires students to observe a code of silence and abstain from using electronic communications.

Penn undergrad Claire Jun gestures to the sign on the front of the building in Seoul, South Korea where she interned this summer.

Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection

Third-year student Claire Jun used her FLAS fellowship this summer to participate in the study abroad program at Yonsei University and a health-policy internship at the National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

The B-School advice no one gives you

Samuel Jones and Nicolaj Siggelkow of the Wharton School offer advice for pursuing a business school degree.

Catherine Sorrentino in front of College Hall

Who, What, Why: Catherine Sorrentino and a souvenir of historic Germantown

During a summer internship, history major Catherine Sorrentino encountered a 108-year-old book with insights into Black Philadelphia.

Tyler, Paula, and Claudia posing at bottom of staircase.

Tracking parental leisure time and ‘intensive mothering’

Paula Fomby, a professor of sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences, worked with a team of PURM students over the summer to analyze time-use data of parents from 1965 to 2019.

A degree from this Ivy League university can add over $80,000 to your salary—it’s not Harvard or Yale

A Penn degree can add an estimated $80,000 a year to a graduate’s salary, with commentary from alumna Emma Morgenstern.

University of Pennsylvania among top global schools for creating women, MBA startup founders

Pitchbook has ranked Penn third in the world for producing entrepreneurs from its MBA program and eleventh for producing graduate female founders.

People looking at modern art in a museum or gallery setting.

A summer studying the aesthetic brain

For third-year Olivia Kim, a PURM research experience with Penn neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee allowed her to combine her love of neuroscience and art in a working lab.

Searching for resilience in our reefs

Some corals survive hotter temperatures better than others. In the lab of biologist Katie Barott, School of Arts & Sciences second-year students Alex Piven and Angela Ye have spent the summer trying to understand why.

class of 2027 stage at franklin field for convocation

At Convocation, students encouraged to take a ‘fisheye’ view

Kicking off the University’s 284th academic year, first-year and transfer students were advised to take a wide view during at least some of their time at Penn, expanding horizons and seeing the borderless nature of knowledge.

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