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Immersed in poetry at the Library of Congress
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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
Four smiling students posing by a blue container with a level on top of it

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.

Gina Vitale

Talon Bazille Ducheneaux is at home with Natives at Penn
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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.

Penn Today Staff

From soldiers to students
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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.

Gina Vitale

Penn Glee Club takes the stage in a five-city tour of Asia
Three lines of students on stage dressed in blue blazers, khaki pants, and red-and-blue-striped ties singing with their arms over their heads.

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
A person in a pink button-down shirt leaning against a brick wall.

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.

Michele W. Berger

A push for emergency texting services across the United States
Two students sitting on a stone statue, one on a computer, the other on a phone.

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.

Michele W. Berger

Penn’s 263rd Commencement
Graduates toss their caps in the air.

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.”

Lauren Hertzler