Undergraduate Students

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Student ambassadors ready to welcome new arrivals during Move-In

Ready to welcome new arrivals to campus, 25 student coordinators are working as paid staff during Move-In to College Houses this coming week.

$200,000 paychecks, exit opportunities, and proximity to power: Why graduates flock to Wall Street

Barbara Hewitt of Career Services said finance has remained a top industry for graduating Penn students. “They know it’s going to be a lot of work for a couple of years,” she said. “They’re pretty open-eyed about that.”

People and Places at Penn

In anticipation of the return to campus, undergraduates introduce their favorite spots.

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Move-In fall 2021 primer

Penn Today offers a practical guide to undergraduates preparing to move into College Housing between Aug. 23 and 29.

A Philly exoneree works to free other wrongly convicted people. First up: His codefendant

Penn students and alumni, including the President’s Engagement Prize winning team behind Project Hope, have been working with the Terrance Lewis Liberation Foundation to support wrongly convicted people.

Urban renewal, community activism, and green spaces in Historic Germantown

As part of a Summer Humanities Internship, rising junior Leo Wagner conducted research on community responses to infrastructure projects in the mid-20th century and how the member sites are currently using their green spaces.

Two masked students walking through Penn Commons.

Penn launches initiative to distribute federal COVID relief funds as direct student grants

100% of federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds will go to student emergency grants and public health initiatives.

The conference empowering the next generation of health care professionals

Rising senior Alejandra Bahena of Kissimmee, Florida, was interviewed about her path to Penn and about taking classes during the pandemic. Bahena is the creator of the National Pre-Health Conference, a virtual event for students in pre-health fields.

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Support and inspiration for undergrads pursuing careers in health care

The three-day-long National Pre-Health Conference, the brainchild of rising senior Alejandra Bahena, begins Aug. 4.

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Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer

Rising sophomore Paola Camacho is conducting research for Hollywood writers and Penn alums David Stern and Stuart Gibbs through a Real Arts@Penn internship in Los Angeles.

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