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Campus & Community
Clinic marks one year helping soldiers transition to civilian life
Transitioning from soldier to civilian after serving in the military isn’t easy. It can be jarring, as numerous challenges arise while navigating through a new way of life.
Serving Communities While Training to Serve the Country
“When I lead the NROTC at Penn, I don’t ask what school a student is from,” says Marine Corps Col. Kenneth DeTreux, the commanding officer of the Philadelphia Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Consortium.
New PennSmiles bus expands dental care for Philly schoolchildren
Visits to the dentist are a critical component of staying healthy, and too many low-income children lack ready access to high-quality care. The lack of access puts them at a higher risk for tooth decay, which can cause chronic pain and in some cases dangerous infections. Oral health problems are one of the top reasons why children in Philadelphia miss school.
Penn Student Anea Moore Learns About Healing in Rwanda
After losing her parents during her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, Anea Moore took steps toward her own healing through her connection with the children of Rwanda who were also coping with grief.Through Penn Hillel’s Moral Voices Fellowship, Moore spent 10 days at the
Penn to Build New College House Near 40th and Walnut Streets
The University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees today approved the design for a new 250,000 sq. ft. residential building, New College House West.
Once rejected by Starbucks, writer-in-residence is a National Book Award finalist
Up four flights of stairs in the house-like home of Penn’s Creative Writing Program is the office of Carmen Maria Machado, writer-in-residence and celebrity author in the making.
A campus conversation, for the entire Penn community
A “wrenchingly disorienting” period, as Penn President Amy Gutmann described it, the University community has been profoundly shaken by recent events.
Monday after Daylight Saving Time sees drop in assaults
On Sunday, Nov. 5, Daylight Saving Time (DST) officially ends. Clocks will “fall back,” adding an hour of sleep and a return to Standard Time. When DST officially began, which happened this year on March 12, an hour of time was lost.
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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