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The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation makes landmark gift to Penn Graduate School of Education
Harold McGraw, Liz Magill, and Pam Grossman.

(Left to right) Harold (Terry) McGraw III, former chairman, president and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Penn President Liz Magill, and GSE dean Pam Grossman. (Image: Steve Belkowitz/PennGSE)

The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation makes landmark gift to Penn Graduate School of Education

The $16.25 million will create a new center for educational leadership and continue the McGraw Prize.
As Penn’s education dean prepares to leave, a record gift and No. 1 ranking are among accomplishments
Philadelphia Inquirer

As Penn’s education dean prepares to leave, a record gift and No. 1 ranking are among accomplishments

A profile celebrates the career of Dean Pam Grossman of the Graduate School of Education as she prepares to depart her position in June. Highlights include a first-time No. 1 ranking in U.S. News & World Report this year and the largest gift in GSE’s history from the Harold W. McGraw Jr. Family Foundation.

Foundations and big donors step in to tackle the nation’s nurse shortage
Chronicle of Philanthropy

Foundations and big donors step in to tackle the nation’s nurse shortage

A $125 million gift from alumnus Leonard Lauder has created a tuition-free program at the School of Nursing that will eventually train 40 nurse practitioners a year for decades to come.

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

Penn honors eight distinguished alumni with Awards of Merit and The Creative Spirit Award
Eight headshots in a grid.

Top row, left to right: Alex H. Park, Lee Spelman Doty, Joan Lau, and Omid Shokoufandeh. Bottom row, left to right: Alberto Chamorro, Laura W. Perna, Todd Lieberman, and William Hohns.

Penn honors eight distinguished alumni with Awards of Merit and The Creative Spirit Award

In addition to the alumni awards, Laura W. Perna of the Graduate School of Education will accept the Faculty Award of Merit.
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.
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

$50M gift to accelerate Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Penn Medicine
Eight people standing in front of a sign that reads The Colton Center for Autoimmunity, including E. John Wherry, Liz Magill, Larry Jameson, and Kevin Mahoney.

Jonathan Epstein, Penn Medicine’s chief scientific officer; Ezekiel Emanuel, vice provost for global initiatives; Dean J. Larry Jameson; Penn President Liz Magill; Judy and Stewart Colton; E. John Wherry, chair of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics; and University of Pennsylvania Health System CEO Kevin Mahoney.

$50M gift to accelerate Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Penn Medicine

The center for autoimmune research brings together star faculty, powering the next generation of autoimmune disease advances.