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Penn awarded grant to promote inclusive excellence in STEM teaching and learning
Students in an auditorium working on their laptops

A grant from the HHMI will support collaborative work by Penn and other institutions to enhance the inclusivity of introductory STEM courses, starting with a rigorous examination of teaching in the School of Arts & Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Penn awarded grant to promote inclusive excellence in STEM teaching and learning

With support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Penn is embarking on a six-year effort to enhance inclusivity and belonging in undergraduate STEM education.

Katherine Unger Baillie

At PCI, new discoveries for societal benefit
John Swartley

Penn Center for Innovation’s Executive Director John Swartley

  • Q&A

    • At PCI, new discoveries for societal benefit

    John Swartley, managing director of the Penn Center for Innovation, talks about the Center’s success.

    Dee Patel

    Penn fourth-year Vikram Balasubramanian named George J. Mitchell Scholar
    Vikram Balasubramanian standing in front of a leafy hedge wearing a suit and tie

    Fourth-year Vikram Balasubramanian has been selected as one of 12 in the nation to receive a George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which covers one academic year of graduate study in Ireland or Northern Ireland.

    Penn fourth-year Vikram Balasubramanian named George J. Mitchell Scholar

    Fourth-year Vikram Balasubramanian, a double-major in statistics and philosophy in the Wharton School and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected as one of 12 in the nation to receive a George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which covers one academic year of graduate study in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
    Scholarships place ‘world of opportunity’ within reach
    Magill at podium speaking to crowd in decorated gym

    Liz Magill, at her first Named Scholarship Celebration as Penn’s president, addresses the crowd of gracious donors and their student recipients.  

    Scholarships place ‘world of opportunity’ within reach

    Penn’s Named Scholarship Celebration returned to Rockwell Gymnasium on Nov. 16—the first time it’s been held in person since 2019.

    Lauren Hertzler

    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

    Mask and Wig makes history with its first gender-inclusive show
    six students dancing in a rehearsal room

    The Mask and Wig Club will make history when they take the stage Oct. 12-15 in the fall show, “Better Call Y’all,” the first gender-inclusive production since its founding as an all-male comedy group in 1889. The cast rehearsed at the Platt House for the Performing Arts.

    Mask and Wig makes history with its first gender-inclusive show

    The 133-year-old comedy troupe becomes gender-inclusive, opening auditions to all undergraduates this fall, recruiting 20 new members, 14 of them female-identifying.
    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

    Poet Wes Matthews combines writing, music, research, and service
    Wes Matthews leaning in a doorway at the Kelly Writers House

    Matthews says he plans to write poetry throughout his life, and hopes someday to collaborate on a poem or book with his mother. 

    Poet Wes Matthews combines writing, music, research, and service

    College fourth-year Wes Matthews is combining writing, music, research, and service during his Penn experience. A former Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the anthropology major and religious studies minor works at the Kelly Writers House and is a Wolf Humanities Center fellow.