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The ceremony marked the start of Penn’s 285th academic year, with about 2,500 new students gathered on Franklin Field.
Interim President J. Larry Jameson and Provost John L. Jackson Jr. welcomed the Class of 2028, transfer students, and their families.
Chaired by Senior Vice Dean Lisa Bellini of Penn Medicine and Faculty director Sigal Ben-Porath of the SNF Paideia Program, the Task Force includes faculty, students, and staff members.
Winkelstein has been tapped by the interim president and the provost to oversee the implementation of the Task Force on Antisemitism and the Presidential Commission on Countering Hate and Building Community.
Vice Provost for Global initiatives Ezekiel J. Emanuel will serve as the initial faculty director of Penn Washington, and the new Penn Franklin Initiative is introduced.
The University celebrated graduating students on Monday during the 268th Commencement.
The Ivy Day Ceremony recognizes outstanding graduating seniors for their leadership and service.
Fourth-year students Yash Dhir and Rahul Nambiar were awarded the President’s Innovation Prize for their web-based education management tool, Jochi, to help middle and high school students.
An iconic tradition at Penn, third-year students were promoted to senior status.
The initiative’s doctoral students recently gathered for an intimate networking opportunity alongside the University’s president, provost, and school deans.
Penn’s Quaker Commitment will expand full-tuition scholarships and will no longer consider the primary family home as an asset in its calculation for institutional aid. Interim President J. Larry Jameson and director of financial aid Elaine Papas Varas offer remarks.
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Interim President J. Larry Jameson, Penn Medicine CEO Kevin Mahoney, Dean Vijay Kumar of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Carl June of the Perelman School of Medicine, and Olympic discus thrower and alumnus Sam Mattis are noted as some of the most influential people in Philadelphia.
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The University Task Force on Antisemitism recommends investment in faculty and staff, academic experiences, and outreach while also clarifying Penn’s open-expression policies, featuring remarks from Interim President J. Larry Jameson.
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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 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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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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