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Serving student veterans at Penn
Man in a blue hoodie and baseball hat greets a yellow lab

Wyatt Frasier, an Army veteran in the Wharton MBA program, greets Byron, a service dog with the Warrior Canine Companion program. The program has recently opened a site at Penn, just above the veteran services office in the Franklin Building.

Serving student veterans at Penn

A new office in Student Registration and Financial Services provides support for the growing number of veterans at Penn.

Kristina García

Demystifying grad school to enhance diversity in STEM
Two students look together at a notebook amid a larger group

Ice breaker activities helped the students connect, building relationships that the DEEPenn STEM organizers hope serve them well as they navigate an entry into scientific graduate work and beyond. (Image: Lamont Abrams)

Demystifying grad school to enhance diversity in STEM

Earlier this month, 48 undergraduate students from around the country traveled to Penn for a three-day gathering full of workshops, lectures, networking opportunities, lab tours, Q & A sessions, and a resource fair.

Katherine Unger Baillie

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 García

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

Sex workers’ rights
A woman wearing a mask and a white lab coat sits at a table covered in a colorful tablecloth, pills, and packages of medication

Ahealth professional surrounded by medication at one of the clinics for sex workers. (Image: Toorjo Ghose)

Sex workers’ rights

A Fulbright award augments Toorjo Ghose’s work to document and support the social movement happening among sex workers in India against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kristina García

15 years of GradFest
Liz Magill speaks to the crowd

15 years of GradFest

The special programming for graduate and professional students—which this year includes apple picking, axe throwing, and much, much more—kicked off on Tuesday and ends on Sept. 24.

Lauren Hertzler

Advocating for labor rights
Three men in suits pose together in an office

Julian Lutz (far right) stands with Collin Clibon (far left), an attorney at Spear Wilderman, a firm that represents Local 19 along with other trade unions, and Marty Millz, attorney to Local 19. All three men were Peggy Browning fellows.

Advocating for labor rights

Through a Peggy Browning Fellowship, Penn Carey Law student Julian Lutz spent his summer working at Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 Philadelphia.

Kristina García

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.
    PennCard Center is poised and ready
    students wait in line to get their penn cards

    PennCard Center is poised and ready

    The staff at the PennCard Center is preparing thousands of official IDs for new students at the start of the 2022-23 school year.

    Penn Today Staff