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Campus & Community
LGBT Center by the numbers
LGBT Center by the numbers
To celebrate the LGBT Center’s 40th anniversary year and in honor of National Coming Out Day, Penn Today takes a look at the numbers.
How can universities help address the affordable housing crisis?
How can universities help address the affordable housing crisis?
Senior Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli talks about Penn’s plans.
The significance of Indigenous People’s Day
The significance of Indigenous People’s Day
Two Penn students, Nyair Locklear, of the Tuscarora Nation and a member of the Lumbee Tribe, and Ryly Ziese, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, offer their points of view on the significance of Indigenous People’s Day
Finding community in the Jewish High Holy Days
Finding community in the Jewish High Holy Days
Three cultural and academic leaders at Penn consider how a return to experiencing Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in person offered physical and spiritual healing.
Penn’s Student Federal Credit Union celebrates its 35th anniversary
Penn’s Student Federal Credit Union celebrates its 35th anniversary
The Student Federal Credit Union, the only student-run credit union in the Ivy League, serves the Penn community—students, alumni, and their immediate family members.
A week of building climate knowledge, awareness, and action
A week of building climate knowledge, awareness, and action
With nearly 30 events planned for Oct. 10-14, Penn’s Climate Week invites the Penn community to “find your place in the climate movement.”
Penn’s Way charitable campaign supports those in need
Penn’s Way charitable campaign supports those in need
President Liz Magill along with Penn’s Way co-chairs Maureen Rush and Patricia Sullivan recently kicked off the 2023 Penn’s Way campaign.
Zero tolerance: Family separation and U.S. immigration policy
Zero tolerance: Family separation and U.S. immigration policy
In the 2022 Dolores Huerta keynote lecture, lawyer Efrén C. Olivares, Class of 2005, spoke on his personal and professional experience with immigration.
In Chen Lok Lee art exhibit, a migrant’s life and legacy
In Chen Lok Lee art exhibit, a migrant’s life and legacy
Showcased in a new exhibition at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts are 18 prints, watercolors, and lithographs by Chinese-American artist Chen Lok Lee.
Biometric screenings for wellness return to campus
Biometric screenings for wellness return to campus
Be in the Know, Penn’s faculty and staff wellness campaign, begins a new year and is bringing back on-campus biometric screenings.
In the News
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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Chicago Sun-Times
UChicago students, Barrington native among 2024 Rhodes Scholars heading to University of Oxford
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn is offering free Narcan through vending machine on campus
A vending machine on Penn’s campus will offer free Narcan and other wellness and health products, with remarks from Jackie Recktenwald and Benoit Dubé of Wellness at Penn.
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