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University Secretary Leslie Laird Kruhly, Penn President Amy Gutmann

At Convocation, students urged to ‘venture boldly into the unknown’

As the sun set before the first day of classes for the Class of 2021, the annual Convocation ceremony, a tradition dating back to 1910, served as a formal welcome for Penn’s incoming class.

Penn Center for Community Health Workers

Dismantling health disparities in Philadelphia and beyond

Community health workers can help patients in ways others can’t—but these programs haven’t always been successful. One program reversed that trend and is a national model.

Protons with a purpose

As many as 115 patients treated each day. Upwards of 5,000 people who have received life-saving cancer care since 2010. As impressive as these numbers are, the outcomes at the Roberts Proton Therapy Center are even more so.

On the fence: international borders and the new political landscape

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Beth Simmons, a global affairs expert, is turning her attention to understanding how the walling, crossing, and securing of international borders affects human rights.

Exploring new worlds: Penn students design an ice drilling robot for Mars

The team’s robot is designed to drill through soil on Mars, extract ice and clay, and then melt the ice and filter it into drinkable water.

By the Numbers: Penn Medicine Pavilion

Penn is building a new hospital on its West Philadelphia campus.

Commencement 2017: ‘use your freedom well’

Penn President Amy Gutmann celebrated the University graduates of the Class of 2017, along with family, friends, the academic community, alumni, and Commencement speaker Cory Booker, Democratic U.S. Senator for New Jersey.

Staff Q&A with Robert Schoenberg

Robert Schoenberg, director of the LGBT Center, discusses the Center’s founding, the important role students have played in the entire life of the Center, and some of the biggest changes he’s seen over his 34 and a half years at Penn.

Q&A with Diane Spatz

Diane Spatz, the Helen M. Shearer Term Professor of Nutrition at the School of Nursing, discusses the benefits of human milk and breastfeeding, a few of her research projects, the CHOP Mother’s Milk Bank, her recent Lifetime Achievement Award, and much more.

By the Numbers: Commencement 2017

Penn kicks off its 261st Commencement ceremony on Monday, May 15, at 10:15 a.m. at the historic Franklin Field.

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