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Staff Q&A with Robert Schoenberg
Staff Q&A with Robert Schoenberg
Robert Schoenberg, director of the LGBT Center, discusses the Center’s founding, the important role students have played in the entire life of the Center, and some of the biggest changes he’s seen over his 34 and a half years at Penn.
On the farm with Penn Vet’s Field Service
It’s a Tuesday morning at Walmoore Holsteins, Inc., a dairy farm in Chatham, Chester County, and fourth-year veterinary student Meghana Pendurthi has found a firm pelvic mass during palpation of a young cow.
For the Record: Class of 1893 Memorial Gate
Marking an entrance into campus from Spruce Street, and tucked between Houston and Williams halls, sits the Class of 1893 Memorial Gate. Designed by two members of the class—Elliston P. Bissell and William C. Hays—the gate has a brick and terracotta base with arched ironwork that spells out the class motto in Latin: Inveniemus viam aut faciemus.
Restoring and renovating the Evans Building to enhance Dental student and patient experiences
More than three years ago, Penn Dental Medicine Dean Denis Kinane took leaders from the school on a retreat to ask a challenging question: How would the school rebuild and rethink the pre-clinic for students?
Toll Center leads law students to pro bono work
In the six years she’s worked at Penn Law School, Emily Sutcliffe had never seen a response quite like what she witnessed on Monday, Jan. 30, the first weekday after the executive order on immigration.
Moving away from a broken banking system
Lisa Servon remembers her family’s bank, Pulaski Savings and Loan, as a routine stop during errands on Friday afternoons or Saturday mornings. It was where her parents deposited their paychecks, and where she opened her first savings account at 7 years old.
For the record: Training programs during WWII
Thousands of Penn faculty, staff, students, and alumni were involved in World War II, from serving in active duty, to participating in special training programs and research projects both on and off campus.