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Juneteenth: A day for reflection, conversation, and learning
As the Penn community takes time today to consider the significance of Juneteenth, Penn Today also pauses for critical reflection
A year of growth
Penn Today reflects on the 2019-2020 academic year with its new Year in Review video.
A tribute to the extraordinary Class of 2020
As in-person festivities have been postponed, Penn live-streamed its “first” 264th Commencement for graduates and their families across the city, nation, and world.
A ‘first’ Commencement like no other
As the pandemic moves an in-person Commencement ceremony to a future date and time, a special live online University-wide celebration on Monday, May 18, will offer up a salute to graduates, the conferral of degrees, and some surprises.
PEP winners connect patients with the medicines they need
Aarogya, a social-enterprise nonprofit created by three President’s Engagement Prize winners and graduating seniors, will bring affordable medicines to low-income people living in India.
Nikil Ragav wants to bring high-tech, hands-on learning to all students
The President’s Innovation Prize winner wants to bring high-tech, hands-on learning to students of all backgrounds across the country with inventXYZ.
Commemorating a milestone moment
Although unable to meet at College Green this semester, President Amy Gutmann celebrated Hey Day—the official “moving up” day for Penn juniors to seniors—in a video with Class Board 2021 members.
President Gutmann teaches session in first-of-its-kind Wharton coronavirus online course
President Amy Gutmann participated in a Q&A session with Wharton Dean Geoff Garrett and approximately 2,000 students as part of the new course dedicated to the coronavirus crisis called Epidemics, National Disasters, and Geopolitics: Managing Global Business and Financial Uncertainty.
Class of 2020 President’s Engagement and Innovation Prize winners announced
Awarded annually, the Prizes empower Penn students to design and undertake post-graduation projects that make a positive, lasting difference in the world, and are the largest of their kind in higher education.
An online celebration to mark a very special day
Penn will host an online University-wide graduation event at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 18. In-person ceremonies for Penn’s 264th Commencement will still take place on campus at a later date.
In the News
UPenn to confer honorary doctorate on Siddhartha Mukherjee
Celebrated physician and best-selling author Siddhartha Mukherjee will deliver the address at the 2024 University of Pennsylvania Commencement, featuring remarks from Interim President J. Larry Jameson.
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Claire Fagin, renowned nurse and researcher who led UPenn, dies at 97
Claire M. Fagin, who helped reshape the nursing profession as a clinician, researcher, educator and advocate, and who stepped away from teaching to become one of the first women to lead an Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania, died Jan. 16 at her home in Manhattan. She was 97.
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Former Penn president Judith Rodin on the changing relationship between business and universities
In a Q&A, former Penn President Judith Rodin discusses her current role advising the Bellwether District, which seeks to reinvent two square miles of former oil refineries in South and Southwest Philly, and the rapid changes in business-academic relations throughout her career.
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Who is J. Larry Jameson, University of Pennsylvania interim president?
A profile examines the accomplishments and leadership experience of J. Larry Jameson, Penn’s new interim president.
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J. Larry Jameson is named Penn’s interim president
J. Larry Jameson, executive vice president of Penn Medicine and dean of the Perelman School of Medicine, has been appointed as Penn’s interim president.
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Women of Influence 2023: M. Elizabeth Magill, University of Pennsylvania
President Liz Magill has been named as one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s Women of Influence in 2023 for her efforts to impact large-scale change and uplift other women.
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