Immersed in poetry at the Library of Congress Joyce Hida, a rising junior, is a summer intern at the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Immersed in poetry at the Library of Congress Rising junior Joyce Hida is making the most of her RealArts summer internship, working at the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Relieving water scarcity, one home at a time Members of the Penn chapter of nonprofit organization Isla Urbana, including (from left) Samira Mehta, Wanqi Fang, Pallavi Menon, and Imañia Powers, helped to install rainwater harvesting and filtration systems in Mexico City this summer. (Photo: Lucia Palmarini) Relieving water scarcity, one home at a time Due to a rapidly depleting underground aquifer, many residents of Mexico City are left with little-to-no easily accessible clean water for hours or days at a time. This summer, members of the Penn chapter of Isla Urbana helped install rainwater harvesting and filtration systems to provide residents of the Mexican capital with clean water year-round.
Talon Bazille Ducheneaux is at home with Natives at Penn Photo: Candace diCarlo/The Pennsylvania Gazette Image: Candace diCarlo/The Pennsylvania Gazette Talon Bazille Ducheneaux is at home with Natives at Penn For 25 years, Penn’s small Native American community has tried to grow its presence on campus, through powwows, Ivy League conferences, and student and faculty outreach. But trying to shed the “feeling of being invisible” has been a struggle.
From soldiers to students Through a week of intensive seminars and workshops taught by university faculty, 15 veterans participated in this year’s Warrior-Scholar Project academic bootcamp at the University of Pennsylvania. From soldiers to students Penn hosted a week of academic bootcamps organized by the Warrior-Scholar Project, a nonprofit that supports enlisted veterans in their transition to college.
At 11, she started college. Now, at 18, she’s on the verge of a Penn degree Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer At 11, she started college. Now, at 18, she’s on the verge of a Penn degree Soleil Hawley, a senior in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, was profiled for her accomplishments as one of the youngest students in recent memory to enroll in a part-time B.A. program at Penn. Penn Glee Club takes the stage in a five-city tour of Asia The Penn Glee Club went on a five-city performance tour over 15 days in Asia. It was club’s the 61st-annual summer tour. Penn Glee Club takes the stage in a five-city tour of Asia From China to Japan, the Penn Glee Club took the stage in five Asian cities during its annual summer tour. Contest fosters local solutions to global sustainability challenges Rising senior Richard Ling started a nonprofit, Collective Cause, and through that, ran a competition called Sustainable Solutions. The goal was to encourage high school and college students to brainstorm local solutions to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Contest fosters local solutions to global sustainability challenges SoleProvider won the Sustainable Solutions competition created by rising senior Richard Ling. The automated texting system offers Philadelphia’s homeless a simple way to request a particular need and for users to fulfill it. A push for emergency texting services across the United States Not only do rising juniors Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and Kirti Shenoy want emergency text services in every county in the United States, but they also want to educate Americans on its potentially lifesaving benefits. That’s where Text-911 comes in. (Photo: Simon Chen) A push for emergency texting services across the United States Today, fewer than half of U.S. counties have this capability. Rising juniors Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and Kirti Shenoy want to change that with their nonprofit Text-911. Camden teen beats odds to attend UPenn on scholarship Penn In the News CBS Philadelphia Camden teen beats odds to attend UPenn on scholarship Christon Young, a charter school student from Camden, New Jersey, will be attending Penn this fall on a full scholarship. Young plans to become an anesthesiologist. Penn’s 263rd Commencement Penn’s 263rd Commencement The Class of 2019 took to Franklin Field on Monday, May 20, for Penn’s 263rd Commencement ceremony, where President Amy Gutmann urged graduates to “weave together a world better, freer, and more inclusive.” Load More
Penn Glee Club takes the stage in a five-city tour of Asia The Penn Glee Club went on a five-city performance tour over 15 days in Asia. It was club’s the 61st-annual summer tour. Penn Glee Club takes the stage in a five-city tour of Asia From China to Japan, the Penn Glee Club took the stage in five Asian cities during its annual summer tour.
Contest fosters local solutions to global sustainability challenges Rising senior Richard Ling started a nonprofit, Collective Cause, and through that, ran a competition called Sustainable Solutions. The goal was to encourage high school and college students to brainstorm local solutions to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Contest fosters local solutions to global sustainability challenges SoleProvider won the Sustainable Solutions competition created by rising senior Richard Ling. The automated texting system offers Philadelphia’s homeless a simple way to request a particular need and for users to fulfill it.
A push for emergency texting services across the United States Not only do rising juniors Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and Kirti Shenoy want emergency text services in every county in the United States, but they also want to educate Americans on its potentially lifesaving benefits. That’s where Text-911 comes in. (Photo: Simon Chen) A push for emergency texting services across the United States Today, fewer than half of U.S. counties have this capability. Rising juniors Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and Kirti Shenoy want to change that with their nonprofit Text-911.
Camden teen beats odds to attend UPenn on scholarship Penn In the News CBS Philadelphia Camden teen beats odds to attend UPenn on scholarship Christon Young, a charter school student from Camden, New Jersey, will be attending Penn this fall on a full scholarship. Young plans to become an anesthesiologist. Penn’s 263rd Commencement Penn’s 263rd Commencement The Class of 2019 took to Franklin Field on Monday, May 20, for Penn’s 263rd Commencement ceremony, where President Amy Gutmann urged graduates to “weave together a world better, freer, and more inclusive.”
Penn’s 263rd Commencement Penn’s 263rd Commencement The Class of 2019 took to Franklin Field on Monday, May 20, for Penn’s 263rd Commencement ceremony, where President Amy Gutmann urged graduates to “weave together a world better, freer, and more inclusive.”