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Summer Funding Program expands to support middle-income students
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Summer Funding Program expands to support middle-income students

Student Registration & Financial Services (SRFS), in partnership with Career Services, will expand their Summer Funding Program this year with an additional $500,000 to support 125-150 middle-income students pursuing summer research and internship opportunities. 

Kristina García

Engaging in the election
Vote That Jawn written in bright yellow chalk on the sidewalk

Penn students in a Writing and Politics fall course taught by Lorene Cary focused on civic engagement during the 2020 election, working with her nonprofit Vote That Jawn. The students created new ways to share nonpartisan information with other young voters: Senior Jay Falk came up with the idea of Vote That Jawn stencils to decorate sidewalks with spray chalk before Election Day.

Engaging in the election

In a collaborative English course taught by Lorene Cary in the fall, students shared their experiences with civic engagement by writing for publication, partnering with nonprofits like Vote That Jawn to share non-partisan information with other young first-time voters.
A new way to connect with like-minded students
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Image by: Vraj Shroff, Penn student

A new way to connect with like-minded students

Penn students reimagine relationships with a virtual platform called Magic Connects.

Dee Patel

A Move-In like no other
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A Move-In like no other

Penn undergraduates start arriving on campus to move into College Houses during an extended eight-day period in keeping with pandemic health and safety protocols.
Penn Dining spring 2021: Four takeaways
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Penn Dining spring 2021: Four takeaways

As students return to campus, dining services has adopted measures to support new safety and public health protocols at both residential and retail cafés on campus.
The show must go on, even amid a pandemic 
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The show must go on, even amid a pandemic 

Amid pandemic restrictions, student performing arts groups continued to find innovative ways this fall to create new theater, dance, comedy, a capella, and instrumental productions to share on virtual platforms.
Housing and dining protocols and safety standards are in place for spring semester
Cafeteria staff person wearing mask and apron handing food to a student on the other side of the counter who is also wearing a mask with a backpack on

Several dining locations, like this cafe at Class of 1920 Commons, will be open for grab-and-go meals when students return to live on campus for the spring semester. Tisa Scott (right), a unit leader who has worked at Penn for 28 years, assists Debanjan Haldar, a third year student at the Perelman School of Medicine. 

Housing and dining protocols and safety standards are in place for spring semester

With the spring semester fast approaching and protocols and safety standards in place, housing and dining is ready for undergraduate students to return to campus in January.
Project Quaker testing program key to a safe campus reopening
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Project Quaker testing program key to a safe campus reopening

Developed in partnership with Penn Medicine, the program aims to conduct 40,000 COVID-19 tests each week and will support ongoing plans to bring students back to campus this spring.

Erica K. Brockmeier

On-campus chemistry
Calais Cronin wears a face mask in a chemistry lab.

Calais Cronin is one of the few students allowed access to a chemistry lab on campus. (Image: Omnia)

On-campus chemistry

After waiting almost two years to join a chemistry lab, Calais Cronin is one of the few students allowed on campus this fall to do research.

From Omnia