Andrea Gomez at work in a laboratory as part of the Summer Undergraduate Internship Program.
Mentoring tomorrow’s biomedical researchers
This year, 41 students took part in the Summer Undergraduate Internship Program, a 10-week residential program that aims to steer biomedicine and biological science students toward Ph.D. programs.
Incoming freshman experience college and community ahead of first semester
In its 32nd year, the weeklong Africana Studies Summer Institute brought 65 incoming freshmen to campus in July, introducing them to the program’s courses, professors, graduate students, and fellow undergraduates.
M. Ani Hsieh’s robotics lab investigates how to use ocean currents as a natural energy source for marine robots, which would enable widespread exploration.
Fifteen-year old Maya Threndgil (far left) and fifteen-year old Shayla Fleming (far right) make bruschetta, while eighteen-year old Indera Guiton (middle) searches for ingredients for her salmon patties. Photo: Eric Sucar
West Philly students cook up on campus
The Netter Center for Community Partnerships helps high school students from West Philadelphia develop their strengths and interests through Leaders of Change, a University-Assisted Community Schools program.
Navigating urban waters, with an interdisciplinary approach
With independent research projects and immersive experiences on and near Philadelphia’s waterways, summer fellows with the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities are collaborating to develop new ways of learning and sharing knowledge.
For six weeks, from the middle of June through early August, summer camps offered by the Netter Center serve around 400 K-8 students and close to 200 high school students.
Netter Center provides summer academic and cultural enrichment
The Netter Center for Community Partnerships offers six-week summer camps at University-Assisted Community Schools that serve hundreds of Philadelphia schoolchildren.
Penn brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world
Leveraging the University’s expertise with technology and rare centuries-old manuscripts, Penn Libraries is digitizing and cataloging medieval and early modern texts from 15 Philadelphia-area institutions. The three-year project is known as BiblioPhilly.
As part of SMASH Wharton, rising 10th graders spend almost the entirety of their summer breaks on Penn’s campus, taking rigorous STEM and business courses.
STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers
As part of the SMASH Wharton program, 35 students live and breathe college life in the summer, staying for three years in Harnwell College House and taking classes at Huntsman Hall.
Tobias Nasgarde (left) and Garrett Meccariello are graduate students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences program, part of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. They completed the research in an effort to practically use the skills they learned in their program.
A gentle nudge at the right moment can curb unnecessary spending online
It turns out, reminding people of their financial goals before they start online shopping can reduce unnecessary spending of this kind by almost 25 percent.
For six weeks, from the middle of June through early August, summer camps offered by the Netter Center serve around 400 K-8 students and close to 200 high school students.
