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Who, What, Why: Laurie McCall, director of the Platt Student Performing Arts House
Laurie McCall standing in front of a mural

Laurie McCall is the director of the Platt Student Performing Arts House at Penn. 

(Image: Steve McCann)

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Laurie McCall, director of the Platt Student Performing Arts House

    Laurie McCall leads the staff at the Platt Student Performing Arts House, which supports Penn’s 70-plus groups that stage more than 100 comedy, spoken word, dance, theater, voice, and music events each year.
    How a Wharton undergrad balances dance and business
    Sami Goel performing on stage with Penn Masti.

    Third-year Sami Goel is studying finance and business analytics at the Wharton School.

    (Image: Courtesy of Sami Goel)

    How a Wharton undergrad balances dance and business

    Fourth-year Samica Goel knew she wanted to dance in college, but was drawn to the business side of the arts. She studies finance and business analytics at Wharton and is the assistant choreographer and dancer with Penn Masti, a South Asian Bollywood fusion dance team.

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    Disability awareness at Penn
    Mae Eskenazi, masked, sits at the head of a long table teaching students

    Mae Eskenazi teaches Disability Studies at Penn. The class born out of a need for students to access curriculum, she says.

    (Image: Eric Sucar)

    Disability awareness at Penn

    About one-fifth of all college students identify as having a disability, a figure that has grown in recent decades. At Penn, students form advocacy clubs, work with the Weingarten Center, and study disability.

    Kristina García

    Studying how infants learn language
    second-year Ziana Sundrani and third-year Taiwo Adeaga stand next to each other.

    Image: Eric Sucar

    Studying how infants learn language

    Supported by PURM, second-year Ziana Sundrani and third-year Taiwo Adeaga worked in the Infant Language Center over the summer on a project exploring how infants figure out which things are words.
    The nuts and bolts of book publishing
    Dylan Fritz sits on the steps outside Penn Press.

    Eric Sucar

    The nuts and bolts of book publishing

    Fourth-year Dylan Fritz interned at Penn Press over the summer in the acquisitions and marketing departments through the Summer Humanities Internship Program.
    A summer in Harrisburg with an eye on global affairs
    Nine people stand in front of office cubicles. Above them, a string of national flags

    Henry Franklin spent the summer interning in the Office of International Business Development. Franklin, an economics and cinema studies major from Yardley, Pennsylvania, spent his time shadowing teams, researching, writing reports, and working on Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 10-year economic plan.

    (Image: Henry Franklin)

    A summer in Harrisburg with an eye on global affairs

    Henry Franklin, a second-year economics and cinema studies major, spent his summer interning in Pennsylvania’s Office of International Business Development.

    Kristina García

    Across Pennsylvania, Penn students practice ‘political empathy’ to connect across divides
    HOPE painted colorfully on the exterior of the Hazelton Integration Project.

    (On homepage) The Political Empathy Lab visited the Hazleton Integration Project, a nonprofit and community center serving a city that has seen a large increase in Dominican immigrants over the past two decades.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn’s Political Empathy Lab)

    Across Pennsylvania, Penn students practice ‘political empathy’ to connect across divides

    Through the SNF Paideia Program, seven undergraduates and political scientist Lia Howard traveled all over the commonwealth this summer, listening to residents talk about their lives and the issues that matter to them.