Disability awareness at Penn 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.
2024 Election: The role Gen Z, Millennials could play Penn In the News Fox 29 (Philadelphia) 2024 Election: The role Gen Z, Millennials could play Three Penn third-years with leadership roles in Penn Democrats share their thoughts about the presidential election. Studying how infants learn language 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 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 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. Across Pennsylvania, Penn students practice ‘political empathy’ to connect across divides (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. The breadth and scope of undergraduate research on display nocred The breadth and scope of undergraduate research on display The Fall Research Expo featured hundreds of undergraduates and their research, from medicine to business to natural sciences. How everyday stress impacts cigarette smoking nocred How everyday stress impacts cigarette smoking Supported by PURM, second-year Gabriella Jean worked in the AHA! Lab over the summer on a research project examining the association between everyday life stressors and cigarette smoking. Boosting the frequency of sound waves to make the next generation of wireless devices Under the guidance of Yue Jiang(left), a Ph.D. candidate in the Charlie Johnson research group in the School of Arts & Sciences, Vincent Kerler (right) conducted this work through the Penn Undergraduate Researching Mentoring Program, a 10-week opportunity from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. The program provides rising second- and third-year students with $5,000 awards to work alongside Penn faculty.nocred Boosting the frequency of sound waves to make the next generation of wireless devices Vincent Kerler, a second-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, spent the summer running simulations as part of Charlie Johnson’s research on topological insulators. The impact of small seminars for new college students Melissa Jensen, a lecturer in the Department of English, in her first-year seminar Juvenilia, which ran for the first in the fall semester in 2023.nocred The impact of small seminars for new college students Sixty first-year seminars offer complex subjects in a comfortable group setting, as well as close connections to professors and peers. This year, 10 are also taking part in a pilot program focused on teaching students how to have respectful dialogue around difficult topics.
Studying how infants learn language 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 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 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.
Across Pennsylvania, Penn students practice ‘political empathy’ to connect across divides (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.
The breadth and scope of undergraduate research on display nocred The breadth and scope of undergraduate research on display The Fall Research Expo featured hundreds of undergraduates and their research, from medicine to business to natural sciences.
How everyday stress impacts cigarette smoking nocred How everyday stress impacts cigarette smoking Supported by PURM, second-year Gabriella Jean worked in the AHA! Lab over the summer on a research project examining the association between everyday life stressors and cigarette smoking.
Boosting the frequency of sound waves to make the next generation of wireless devices Under the guidance of Yue Jiang(left), a Ph.D. candidate in the Charlie Johnson research group in the School of Arts & Sciences, Vincent Kerler (right) conducted this work through the Penn Undergraduate Researching Mentoring Program, a 10-week opportunity from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. The program provides rising second- and third-year students with $5,000 awards to work alongside Penn faculty.nocred Boosting the frequency of sound waves to make the next generation of wireless devices Vincent Kerler, a second-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, spent the summer running simulations as part of Charlie Johnson’s research on topological insulators.
The impact of small seminars for new college students Melissa Jensen, a lecturer in the Department of English, in her first-year seminar Juvenilia, which ran for the first in the fall semester in 2023.nocred The impact of small seminars for new college students Sixty first-year seminars offer complex subjects in a comfortable group setting, as well as close connections to professors and peers. This year, 10 are also taking part in a pilot program focused on teaching students how to have respectful dialogue around difficult topics.