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Staff Q&A/Michele Grab

Photo credit: Mark Stehle Since becoming the inaugural director of Penn’s Advancing Women in Engineering Program two years ago, Michele Grab’s mission has been simple: recruit and retain female students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

The Penn Graduate

Campus projects large and small

Annenberg Public Policy Center There are plenty of new faces around campus this fall—and several new and refurbished buildings, as well. Penn construction crews have been busy these past few months putting the finishing touches on a campus building, completing renovations to two student dorms and preparing to kick off the first phase of Penn Park.

University of Pennsylvania Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass

PHILADELPHIA – Physicists working with glasses, a material that still perplexes researchers despite thousands of years of household and industrial use, have found new clues about how glasses age.

University of Pennsylvania Releases Climate Action Plan

PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania today released its Climate Action Plan, a comprehensive approach to reducing the University’s carbon footprint and enhancing its overall sustainability. An announcement by President Amy Gutmann marked the occasion.

Penn Advancing Women in Engineering Program to Attract Young Women to Field of Computer Science Through Microsoft Grant

PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania’s Advancing Women in Engineering Program has received a grant funded by Microsoft Research and administered by the National Center for Women & Information Technology, NCWIT, to support “Guidance Counselor and Teacher Computer Science Day,” a program designed to bring high school guidance counselors and teachers to the Penn campus for a day-long workshop on how to better recruit women’s participation in computer science.

University of Pennsylvania Releases Climate Action Plan

 PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania today released its Climate Action Plan, a comprehensive approach to reducing the University’s carbon footprint and enhancing its overall sustainability. An announcement by President Amy Gutmann marked the occasion.

Penn announces Climate Action Plan

Penn President Amy Gutmann unveiled the University’s groundbreaking Climate Action Plan before an enthusiastic gathering of faculty, students, staff and community partners on Wednesday, Sept. 16, urging them to embrace Penn’s pledge to put the University at the vanguard of environmental sustainability.

Penn and Philadelphia Fire Department host campus safety event

To ensure the safety of Penn students, faculty and staff, Penn Public Safety partners with the Philadelphia Fire Department in maintaining campus fire safety preparedness.

Physical Fitness or Obesity: Which Better Determines Health Outcomes? A Penn Positive Health Lecture

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