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Campus & Community
Staff Q&A with Lisa Warshaw
The Wharton Communication Program director discusses teaching students how to be better oral and written communicators, and preparing them for the communication challenges they will face as managers. Comedian Jerry Seinfeld once joked about a study that found that speaking in front of a crowd is considered the No. 1 fear of the average person.
Experts share nutrition facts and fads
We all care about nutrition; it’s impossible not to. The food we consume determines our health—our immunity, susceptibility to disease, physical and mental development, and productivity.
Skills Initiative Gives Unemployed West Philadelphians Job Training
She fell in love with the trees. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, she would pass through Penn as a curious and attentive child. Traveling on SEPTA with her mother, she was fascinated by the University’s arboreal campus, unique and scenic architecture, and pacific quality of life.
Student Spotlight with Kassidi Jones
LOOKING FOR EXCELANO: Majoring in English and Africana studies, Kassidi Jones is a senior from Hartford, Conn. Since the second semester of her freshman year, she has been a member of the Excelano Project, Penn’s premier spoken word poetry group.
Taking stock of Philly’s historic sacred places
The City of Philadelphia was created in 1682 as part of William Penn’s “Holy Experiment” where people of different religious faiths could worship freely and live in peace.
Q&A with H. Carton Rogers
Q&A with H. Carton Rogers
Almost 43 years ago, H. Carton Rogers was hired as the director of public and technical services in what was then known as Penn’s Medical Library. His first task on the job? To literally move the Biology Library down Hamilton Walk from the Leidy Building to integrate it with the medical collection and create the Biomedical Library.
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Words, Rendered in Arabic Calligraphy, on a West Philly Corner
A blank wall as his canvas, Tunisian-French street artist eL Seed spent a week this autumn transforming the corner of Market and Preston streets just north of 40th Street.
What riverbeds have in common with mixed nuts
The surface of a riverbed is typically lined by relatively large rocks, which protect the layers of finer sand and gravel beneath from erosion. Geologists have long thought that fluid mechanics control this pattern; the idea being that the flow of the river washes away the finer particles from the bed’s surface, leaving the larger particles behind.
By the Numbers - Penn Libraries
Penn Libraries is an enormous enterprise with more than a dozen facilities on campus alone, as well as several commons, centers, and associated libraries.
FDA Approves Gene Therapy for Inherited Blindness Developed by Penn and CHOP
In a historic move, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a gene therapy initially developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) for the treatment of a rare, inherited form of retinal blindness.
In the News
Inside Higher Ed
Hopping on the affordability bandwagon
Penn is expanding full-tuition scholarships and removing home equity in its calculations for institutional aid, with remarks from Elaine Varas.
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Architectural Record
Clad in terra-cotta fins, UPenn’s expanded Graduate School of Education fits in with its neighbors
The Graduate School of Education has been renovated and expanded to feature additional classroom space, enhanced accessibility, and a distinct architectural identity.
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Bloomberg
Ivy League’s Penn shakes up aid formula by excluding home equity
To increase affordability, Penn will stop including a family’s equity in their primary home when determining a student’s financial aid eligibility.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn to expand its full-tuition scholarship aid to families with a higher income threshold
Penn’s Quaker Commitment will expand full-tuition scholarships and will no longer consider the primary family home as an asset in its calculation for institutional aid. Interim President J. Larry Jameson and director of financial aid Elaine Papas Varas offer remarks.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn student awarded Rhodes Scholarship to continue cancer research at Oxford University
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship to continue his cancer research at Oxford University.
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