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From crisis communications to dissecting a decade of TV news
Sam Wolken.

Sam Wolken is a joint doctoral student in Communication and Political Science. (Image: Annenberg School for Communication)

From crisis communications to dissecting a decade of TV news

Sam Wolken, a joint doctoral student in communication and political science, studies public opinion, local news, and politics.

From Annenberg School for Communication

A growing focus on equitable oral care for people with disabilities
dental student in gown, gloves, and mask works on a patient in a dental chair

Student training is a large component of an increasing focus on care for people with disabilities at the School of Dental Medicine. (Image: Courtesy of Dentsply Sirona)

A growing focus on equitable oral care for people with disabilities

Through global outreach, enhanced student training, continuing education for practitioners, and the busy Care Center for Persons with Disabilities, the School of Dental Medicine is working to break down barriers to care.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Learning to be a Chief Learning Officer
five people sitting around table with laptops open and one person standing

The Graduate School of Education’s Chief Learning Officer program for mid-career professionals has a new director, Raghu Krishnamoorthy (standing). Formerly with General Electric, he graduated from the doctoral program in May. The program gives working executives new skills, connections, and expertise to become scholar-practitioners.

Learning to be a Chief Learning Officer

The Graduate School of Education’s Chief Learning Officer program has a new director, Raghu Krishnamoorthy. The program gives working executives new skills, connections, and expertise to become scholar-practitioners.

Louisa Shepard

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 Linnea 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 Linnea 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 Linnea 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