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Building the Penn community at NSO
Penn students looking excited in The Palestra.

First-year Penn students gathered at The Palestra on Aug. 22, 2024, for the Building the Penn Community event, part of New Student Orientation.

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Building the Penn community at NSO

New Student Orientation introduced the first-ever “Building the Penn Community” event during Penn Spirit Day on Thursday, Aug. 22.
Restoring the public purpose of America’s urban universities
Two college students lean over a table to talk with elementary school students

Penn students and district staff with students at Lea Elementary.

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Restoring the public purpose of America’s urban universities

A new Netter Center white paper written in collaboration with eight universities highlights mutually beneficial university-community partnerships.

Kristina García

Move-In coordinators help ease transition to college
Move-In coordinators gather signs to put around Penn’s campus.

Penn’s Move-In Coordinator Program operates out of Residential & Hospitality Services, and staffed by 49 second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students.

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Move-In coordinators help ease transition to college

Forty-eight second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students will be on the ground during Move-In to assist approximately 6,000 new and returning Quakers.
Exploring rosemary extract and wound healing
Jiayi Pang, seated wearing a white lab coat, uses a pipette to fill a test tube as her mentor looks on

Jiayi Pang uses a pipette to fill a tube with the precise amount of rosemary extract as her mentor, Emmanuel Rapp, looks on. 

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Exploring rosemary extract and wound healing

Jiayi Pang, a rising third-year majoring in cell and molecular biology, is studying rosemary's therapeutic effects on skin.

Kristina García

What’s That? The Rittenhouse Orrery
John Pollack standing in front of Rittenhouse Orrery

Penn Libraries curator John Pollack with the Rittenhouse Orrery.

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What’s That? The Rittenhouse Orrery

The Rittenhouse Orrery is a nearly intact 18th-century mechanical model of the solar system, demonstrating the motions of the planets and their satellites around the sun, built by astronomer David Rittenhouse.
Move-In primer 2024
Penn students and volunteers on Locust Walk during Move-In.

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Move-In primer 2024

Penn Today offers a practical guide to undergraduates moving into College Houses and participating in orientation Aug. 19-26
Summer construction in full swing on campus
Quadrangle building exterior with cranes outside of it.

A construction crew works outside of the Quadrangle, which recently finished phase one of a three-phase renovation. 

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Summer construction in full swing on campus

Before student Move-In, construction teams work to advance building projects and conduct maintenance. Facilities & Real Estate Services offers updates on a few projects.
The economic impact of the Olympics
Silas Ruth poses on a bench near windows.

Silas Ruth is a rising fourth-year who is researcing the economics of the Olympic Games.

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The economic impact of the Olympics

Rising fourth-year Silas Ruth, an economics major, examines sports mega-events like Paris 2024 through an economic lens.

Kristen de Groot

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