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Move-In 2022: By the Numbers
students pushing moving carts

About 6,000 undergraduate students will be moving into the 13 Penn College Houses during Move-In 2022.

  • By the Numbers

    • Move-In 2022: By the Numbers

    With students arriving on Penn’s campus this week to move into the College Houses, Penn Today has compiled links to resources and statistics about the campus Move-In experience.
    UPenn’s boathouse gets a facelift
    Axios

    UPenn’s boathouse gets a facelift

    The College Boat Club on the Schuylkill River is receiving $13.5 million in renovations, with construction expected to be completed in September.

    People’s Kitchen is latest community garden threatened by sheriff sale
    WHYY Radio (Philadelphia)

    People’s Kitchen is latest community garden threatened by sheriff sale

    Rising second-year Kenny Chiu in the College of Arts and Sciences, an intern with People’s Kitchen, says that the sheriff sale is an opportunity for developers to grab land cheaply and sit on it until the neighborhood becomes profitable enough to develop.

    Philadelphia bidding for new federal research agency headquarters
    WHYY Radio (Philadelphia)

    Philadelphia bidding for new federal research agency headquarters

    Dawn Bonnell of the Provost’s Office says that Philadelphia business leaders are applying for a new program from the National Science Foundation to establish regional research hubs.

    With school out, construction crews work in earnest
    Two construction workers work on the interior of Penn Boathouse.

    A new room for hosting events inside the Penn Boathouse. Completion of the Boathouse renovation is one of 395 active projects on and around campus, encompassing $1.2 billion in approved total budgets and 339 construction workers on campus daily.

    With school out, construction crews work in earnest

    Campus may have depopulated for the summer, but construction workers have moved in to begin or accelerate work on projects both big and small. Here, an overview of what’s in progress on Penn’s campus—and beyond.
    Goodbye to an iconic tree
    Large tree without leaves on a sunny day

    The Quad elm cut an imposing figure, shown here in the spring of 2021, before leaf out. The space will be replanted with three native white oaks at a later date. (Image: Eric Sucar/University Communications)

    Goodbye to an iconic tree

    More than a century old, the American elm located in the heart of the Quadrangle residences has been ailing and is due to be removed the week of July 25. The site will be replanted at a later date with three native white oaks.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    A farm-to-table meal at Penn, in photos
    The arms of two people over an industrial-sized kitchen warmer, which holds a pot of green puree, two pans of pasta, a cast iron skillet of mushrooms, another cast iron skillet of fish with a spatula on top, and a bowl of multi-colored carrots. A stack of bowls sits off to the left of the image.

    On a given night Quaker Kitchen serves as many as 200 meals like the Earth Week meal, which included pea puree, pasta carbonara, mushrooms, carrots, and sustainably sourced salmon. “The big message is, if you’re interested in climate change, the choice you make at your dinner table has a big impact,” says Barbara Lea-Kruger, director of communications and external relations for Penn’s Division of Business Services.

    A farm-to-table meal at Penn, in photos

    Honoring Earth Week, Penn Dining and the Penn Food and Wellness Collaborative teamed up to create a vegetable-forward menu for Quaker Kitchen, sourcing produce from local purveyors to highlight what’s currently growing on the quarter-acre Penn Park Farm.

    Michele W. Berger