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Penn’s Student Federal Credit Union celebrates its 35th anniversary
Two student workers behind a bank counter window.

Yomi Abdi (left) and Giselle Gonzaga working at the Student Federal Credit Union on 34th and Walnut.

Penn’s Student Federal Credit Union celebrates its 35th anniversary

The Student Federal Credit Union, the only student-run credit union in the Ivy League, serves the Penn community—students, alumni, and their immediate family members.

Dee Patel

A week of building climate knowledge, awareness, and action
Person waters a row of crops at a farm

Hands-on events for Climate Week include a tour of Penn Park Farm, a bioblitz at the Biopond, and planting sessions at Penn Park and the Andrew Hamilton School.

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A week of building climate knowledge, awareness, and action

With nearly 30 events planned for Oct. 10-14, Penn’s Climate Week invites the Penn community to “find your place in the climate movement.”

Katherine Unger Baillie

Engaging teens in the art of design
high school student working at design table

Engaging teens in the art of design

Through the PennPraxis program Design to Thrive, high schoolers are paired with Penn graduate students to learn the design process, from planning to welding and all parts in between.

Michael Grant

ModPo celebrates its first decade
Al Filreis holds up the Book "The Difference is Spreading" while seated at a long table with four other people to his left and a television screen with the faces of several other people to his right in front of an audience

English Professor Al Filreis holds up a copy of the just-published book “The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems,” during the ModPo webcast to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the free massive online open course Modern and Contemporary Poetry. 

ModPo celebrates its first decade

Modern and Contemporary Poetry was founded by Al Filreis of the School of Arts & Sciences at Kelly Writers House in 2012, and now has 69,000 people enrolled globally. Poets and participants came to campus to celebrate the 10th anniversary.

Louisa Shepard

A hub for scholarship on ethnicity, race, and immigration
Chenoa Flippen addresses an audience before a panel on Latino voting history.

Chenoa Flippen (left) introduces a panel featuring author Geraldo Cadava and political scientist Michael Jones-Correa, an event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration.

A hub for scholarship on ethnicity, race, and immigration

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration brings together undergraduates, graduates, and faculty across the University to build connections and enhance and fund research. 

Kristen de Groot

A robot made of sticks
A person sticks a paper coffee cup inside some branches holding together the stickbot.

Carroll adjusts StickBot to work in grasper mode, where the robot holds a coffee cup. 

A robot made of sticks

Devin Carroll, a doctoral candidate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is designing a modular robot called StickBot, which may be adapted for rehabilitation use in global public health settings.

Kristina Linnea García

Wharton students set community values
Students walking outside on Penn's campus.

Wharton students set community values

An undergraduate-led effort at Wharton has identified six core values that students want the school to embody.

Dee Patel

Bolstering environmental education in Cobbs Creek
A group of students working on a project at Cobbs Creek.

Bolstering environmental education in Cobbs Creek

Through a Projects for Progress award and other University support, students in West Philadelphia are gaining greater access to STEM learning resources at the Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center.

Katherine Unger Baillie

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