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Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has ranked Penn one of the Top 10 most affordable private universities in the United States. Ranked sixth on the Kiplinger’s list, Penn was touted as offering outstanding academics at a reasonable cost. Princeton was ranked first among private universities, and three other Ivy League institutions—Yale (No. 2), Harvard (No.
Sporting images of both the Penn shield and the Penn Athletics’ split P, one of the University’s newest structures has caused a lot of rubbernecking lately.
Without the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia’s theater landscape would look vastly different.
A new statue at Franklin Field will honor Penn alum and NFL Hall-of-Famer Chuck Bednarik. Known as “Concrete Charlie,” Bednarik played for the Quakers from 1945 to 1948, and then for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1949 to 1962.
What first-hand knowledge do West Philadelphia middle school students have about whales? Probably not much, considering the scarcity of whales in the area. New Jersey’s Adventure Aquarium doesn’t have any on display, nor does Baltimore’s National Aquarium. (Although there was that time a beluga whale made its way up the Delaware River.)
Food trucks on and around campus serve thousands of hungry people everyday, providing quick, tasty and inexpensive sustenance for time-crunched students, faculty and staff.
On the blustery afternoon of Friday, Nov. 8, under a tent set up on Hill Field, the Penn community gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new college house—what President Amy Gutmann called a “living, learning community.”
In the 1980s, former Penn professor Catherine “Kaki” Marshall noticed a campaign in major Canadian cities to provide quality theater festivals for children. Impressed by their efforts, Marshall decided to mimic the campaign in the United States.
Penn has prominent works of art on display around campus, including Claes Oldenburg’s “Split Button” outside the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center and Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture on College Green. But the University also holds some lesser-known pieces in its 6,000-item art collection.
Whether ending hunger is your concern, or increasing educational opportunities for West Philadelphia children is your passion, the Penn’s Way campaign gives faculty and staff a way to turn interest into action.
Penn alum Amy Jane Cohen is profiled for her new book “Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape,” which examines Black history through the lens of events, institutions, and individuals across the city. The book includes a reflection from Penn chaplain Charles Howard.
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A profile highlights Maria Wright of Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, from her volunteer work connecting people with service dogs to her cancer diagnosis and her own journey applying for a service dog.
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Celebrated physician and best-selling author Siddhartha Mukherjee will deliver the address at the 2024 University of Pennsylvania Commencement, featuring remarks from Interim President J. Larry Jameson.
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Almost 90% of students who graduated from Penn in 2023 completed an internship during college. Barbara Hewitt of Career Services says that the race to get talent early has resulted in a focus on getting early practical experience through many ways in students’ academic careers.
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Penn received more than 65,000 undergraduate applications for the Class of 2028, the most in its history.
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