A West Philadelphia High School student practices the drum as part of a July summer program in partnership with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships and nonprofit Musicopia.
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A summer of student enrichment, from big ideas to bold beats
The Netter Center for Community Partnerships finished its summer of programming for West Philadelphia students, impacting 640 students and six University-Assisted Community Schools.
Brian Vivier, director of the Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections.
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Who, What, Why: Brian Vivier leads Global Collections at Penn Libraries
As director of the Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections, Vivier talks about work at the Libraries that “fuels where the next ideas come from.”
Walking the walk with Penn’s VP of Business Services
A year into his role as vice president of Business Services, Michael Scales has built on the division’s “legacy of excellence” while being a sponge and getting to know students and staff around the division.
Third-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science Ngaatendwe Manyika (right) of Harare, Zimbabwe, spent the summer working with Penn Engineering’s Lorena Grundy (left) to develop a new class, the Renewable Energy Technologies Lab, coming to Penn next fall.
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Ngaatendwe Manyika: Helping to reshape renewable energy education
Third-year mechanical engineering student Ngaatendwe Manyika spent the summer working with practice assistant professor at Penn Engineering Lorena Grundy developing a new class, the Renewable Energy Technologies Lab coming to Penn next fall.
Who, What, Why: Third-year gets a taste of the film biz
This summer Bea Hammam, a third-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, completed two internships with companies in the film industry, both founded by Penn alums.
At Convocation, first-years called on to ‘embrace the unexpected’
Penn’s 286th academic year formally began at Convocation, where President J. Larry Jameson drew lessons from nature by invoking fireflies—recognizing students’ brilliance, prescribing them to ‘“embrace the unexpected,” and reminding them, “Fireflies do not glow alone.”
Chinmay Govind, a rising second-year in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, writes equations on a chalkboard in his team's research space at David Rittenhouse Laboratory. For his portion of the PURM project, Govind used AI to track and map whale locations.
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Students use machine learning to track and protect whale populations
For their Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program project, Chinmay Govind and Nihar Ballamudi leveraged AI to locate and census whales. The study may inform policy measures that help to improve protections for whale populations worldwide.
New and returning undergraduates arrived on campus last week, attending welcome events and receptions, including an introduction to the Libraries, the Class Photo on Franklin Field, and an evening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
