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Red and blue pride to last a lifetime
penn president liz magill with dogs on locust walk

Red and blue pride to last a lifetime

President Liz Magill’s inauguration on Friday coincided with Penn’s Homecoming festivities, making for an extra-spirited weekend on campus.

Lauren Hertzler

A ‘new beginning’ for Penn
liz magill in irvine after inauguration

Liz Magill, Penn’s ninth president, walks in the academic procession as part of her inauguration. 

A ‘new beginning’ for Penn

The University celebrated the inauguration of Liz Magill, its ninth president, on Friday, Oct. 21.

Lauren Hertzler

Jayson Musson: ‘His History of Art’
Jayson Musson with frizzy muppet

Jayson Musson. (Image: Carlos Avendaño)

Jayson Musson: ‘His History of Art’

Musson, an alumnus of the Master of Fine Arts program in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, will speak at the Annenberg Center about his artistic practice and current exhibition “His History of Art.”

Anna Chen

Netter Center kicks off 30th anniversary programming
penn president liz magill sits at a table at hamilton school Magill learns about the University-Assisted Community Schools partnership at Hamilton with Cory Bowman, associate director of the Netter Center; Bianca del Rio, executive director of UACS programs; Harkavy; Anna Balfanz, ABCS coordinator; and Om Manghani, a third-year student at Penn.

Netter Center kicks off 30th anniversary programming

A fall celebration at Andrew Hamilton School showcased Penn’s flourishing University-Assisted Community Schools initiative.

Lauren Hertzler

Mask and Wig makes history with its first gender-inclusive show
six students dancing in a rehearsal room

The Mask and Wig Club will make history when they take the stage Oct. 12-15 in the fall show, “Better Call Y’all,” the first gender-inclusive production since its founding as an all-male comedy group in 1889. The cast rehearsed at the Platt House for the Performing Arts.

Mask and Wig makes history with its first gender-inclusive show

The 133-year-old comedy troupe becomes gender-inclusive, opening auditions to all undergraduates this fall, recruiting 20 new members, 14 of them female-identifying.

Louisa Shepard

Keys to knowledge: Penn presidential inaugural traditions
Archival parchments and ephemera from Archives on a table.

The oldest sealed diplomas in the Archives collection, from 1760 and 1768, have early examples of the Penn seal of the corporation. Another, dated 1789, has the orrery seal.

Keys to knowledge: Penn presidential inaugural traditions

The inauguration ceremony for Penn’s ninth president Liz Magill on Oct. 21 will incorporate decades-long traditions and centuries-old University symbols.

Louisa Shepard

LGBT Center by the numbers
A group of people wearing bright colors strike a pose on the patio of the LGBT Center

The LGBT Center’s “Dance Outside with Pride” event in June 2021.

LGBT Center by the numbers

To celebrate the LGBT Center’s 40th anniversary year and in honor of National Coming Out Day, Penn Today takes a look at the numbers.

Kristina Linnea García

The significance of Indigenous People’s Day
Two woman in a garden.

Ryly Ziese (left) and Nyair Locklear (right) outside the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

The significance of Indigenous People’s Day

Two Penn students, Nyair Locklear, of the Tuscarora Nation and a member of the Lumbee Tribe, and Ryly Ziese, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, offer their points of view on the significance of Indigenous People’s Day

Kristina Linnea García

Poet Wes Matthews combines writing, music, research, and service
Wes Matthews leaning in a doorway at the Kelly Writers House

Matthews says he plans to write poetry throughout his life, and hopes someday to collaborate on a poem or book with his mother. 

Poet Wes Matthews combines writing, music, research, and service

College fourth-year Wes Matthews is combining writing, music, research, and service during his Penn experience. A former Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the anthropology major and religious studies minor works at the Kelly Writers House and is a Wolf Humanities Center fellow.

Louisa Shepard

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