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By the Numbers: Move-In 2024
Students pushing Move-In carts outside a Penn dorm.

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  • By the Numbers

    • By the Numbers: Move-In 2024

    With students arriving on Penn’s campus this week to move into the College Houses, Penn Today has compiled links to resources and statistics about the Move-In experience.
    Move-In coordinators help ease transition to college
    Move-In coordinators gather signs to put around Penn’s campus.

    Penn’s Move-In Coordinator Program operates out of Residential & Hospitality Services, and staffed by 49 second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students.

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    Move-In coordinators help ease transition to college

    Forty-eight second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students will be on the ground during Move-In to assist approximately 6,000 new and returning Quakers.
    Exploring rosemary extract and wound healing
    Jiayi Pang, seated wearing a white lab coat, uses a pipette to fill a test tube as her mentor looks on

    Jiayi Pang uses a pipette to fill a tube with the precise amount of rosemary extract as her mentor, Emmanuel Rapp, looks on. 

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    Exploring rosemary extract and wound healing

    Jiayi Pang, a rising third-year majoring in cell and molecular biology, is studying rosemary's therapeutic effects on skin.

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    A summer researching equine osteoarthritis and a potential treatment
    Kyla Ortved watches Sidney Wong work under hood in lab.

    Rising second-year Sidney Wong, right, spent the summer working in the lab of Penn Vet professor Kyla Ortved, left, through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.

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    A summer researching equine osteoarthritis and a potential treatment

    Through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program, rising second-year Sidney Wong has conducted research in the lab of Kyla Ortved at Penn Vet.
    Move-In primer 2024
    Penn students and volunteers on Locust Walk during Move-In.

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    Move-In primer 2024

    Penn Today offers a practical guide to undergraduates moving into College Houses and participating in orientation Aug. 19-26
    Animating for impact
    Cartoon-stylized person compassionately touching an elderly person's face.

    A still from "Mother," an animated short film about Hong's grandfather’s life, from losing his mother at a young age to building his own family.

    (Image: Ejun Hong)

    Animating for impact

    Funded by RealArts@Penn, rising fourth-year Ejun Hong is spending the summer interning with Sony Pictures in Los Angeles.
    Internship offers pathway to careers in the museum field
    Ethan Nemeth at a table talking with another person.

    Rising third-year Ethan Nemeth (left) was an intern at the Penn Museum through the Summer Humanities Internship Program. He worked at several public events, including the Garden Jams concerts in July. 

    (Image: by Emmanuel Beatty for the Penn Museum)

    Internship offers pathway to careers in the museum field

    Rising third-year Ethan Nemeth (left), one of 17 paid interns at the Penn Museum this summer, works on the team that manages public programs. The ancient history major says the experience has helped him understand career options in the museum field.
    Honing writing chops on and off stage
    A Penn intern at 1812 seated in the audience seats of a theater.

    Trisha Bheemanathini is cognitive science and neuroscience and sociology triple-major in the College of Arts and Sciences.

    (Image: Nick Seymour)

    Honing writing chops on and off stage

    Rising third-year Trisha Bheemanathini joins 1812 Productions in Philadelphia for a summer internship through RealArts@Penn.
    Drawn to ArtWell
    Natalie Cheng hanging paper artworks on a wall

    Natalie Cheng, a rising second-year student, is focusing on communications and design during a summer internship with the Philadelphia nonprofit ArtWell. She is one of two Penn interns there this year, supported by the University's Summer Humanities Internship Program. 

    (Image: Courtesy of ArtWell) 

    Drawn to ArtWell

    Drawn by their interests in art, design, and support for children in Philadelphia, two Penn students in the College of Arts and Sciences, Natalie Cheng and Aled Dillabough, are working as interns this summer at the nonprofit ArtWell.