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Campus & Community
Decentralizing cancer screenings
Decentralizing cancer screenings
A Projects for Progress team in the Abramson Cancer Center continues to work with the West Philadelphia community to bring cancer screenings out of clinical settings.
What’s That? Fisher Fine Arts Library windows
What’s That? Fisher Fine Arts Library windows
Shakespeare scholar and Penn lecturer Horace Howard Furness selected aphorisms for windows in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, a building his brother designed.
Penn’s urban forest in fall
Penn’s urban forest in fall
Penn’s West Philadelphia campus is home to 240 different tree species, which put on a show during the fall season.
Introducing the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation
Introducing the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation
The Center for Teaching and Learning and the Online Learning Initiative have merged to become one unit for the support of instructors, graduate students, and staff.
Stay on top of your health with Penn’s Be in the Know wellness campaign
Stay on top of your health with Penn’s Be in the Know wellness campaign
The campaign runs through June 30, 2024. Free, convenient, on-campus biometric screenings are held through Thursday, Nov. 30.
Serving service members
Serving service members
There are more than 18 million veterans and an additional 1.6 million service members in the United States. Around 297 of them are students at Penn. In a Nov. 9 event, the University honored these students with an event coordinated by the Veteran and Military Affiliated Students program.
Penn reports success on Climate and Sustainability Action Plan goals
Penn reports success on Climate and Sustainability Action Plan goals
Sustainability Director Nina Morris recently shared with the Board of Trustees an update on progress.
A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election
A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election
Penn Leads the Vote was on hand at the Houston Hall polling location, one of several polling places on campus where voters made their voices heard for the 2023 general election.
Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
A hand-coiled clay jar by pueblo artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s Native American Voices gallery. The abstract surface design references water and its use in the U.S. Southwest.
Moving forward, together
Moving forward, together
At the Nov. 3 Stated Meeting of the Trustees, President Liz Magill said that she is a president “for all people in this community,” and encouraged finding common ground to support and protect each other and the University’s mission.
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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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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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 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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