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Move-In 2022: By the Numbers

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.

Anne Sage kneels down to address her players, who are seated on the field. Two players stand behind her.

NFHCA to bestow Anne Sage with its Lifetime Achievement Award

Sage, who passed away in 2019, was the first coach of the field hockey team and women’s lacrosse team and a pioneer of women’s athletics at Penn.

People lined up near a sign that says NJCRI Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic

Monkeypox: What is known and unknown

The current outbreak of monkeypox is showing no sign of slowing. Stuart Isaacs of the Perelman School of Medicine, an expert on poxviruses, sheds light on the disease, its prevention and treatment, and what to watch for this fall.

students wait in line to get their penn cards

PennCard Center is poised and ready

The staff at the PennCard Center is preparing thousands of official IDs for new students at the start of the 2022-23 school year.

Sara Sterchak talks with someone at at the Juneteenth festival in Kennett Square

In Kennett Square, PennPraxis helps build community, one leader at a time

While much community planning work is focused on limited interventions or short-lived programs targeting singular issues, PennPraxis partnerships focus on cultivating longer trajectories of community involvement.

A teacher writing math problems on a white board in front of an elementary school student.

Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids

The Responsive Math Teaching project, currently funded by the National Science, has kids in West Philly schools engaging in the work, rather than passively completing it, through summer “math festivals.”

A person standing up adjusting a headset over a person sitting in a soundproof room. Barely visible in front of the sitting person is a computer screen and keyboard. A fire alarm sits above a window behind both people.

Singing, speech production, and the brain

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.

Clay White, wearing a Seton Hall shirt, stands on a golf course whith his hands on his hip, while standing in between two people.

Clay White named new men’s golf coach

White spent the past 18 years as the head coach at Seton Hall and led the Pirates to the 2022 Big East Championship.

Employee turnover costs more than you think

A new study from Wharton’s Ken Moon reveals the hidden cost of employee turnover by drawing a direct link between higher quit rates and product failure for a smartphone manufacturer.

James J. Husson named head of Development and Alumni Relations at Penn

Starting in October, Husson will head a division devoted to fundraising and to nurturing relationships with the University’s alumni.

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