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Campus & Community
Penn's Irma Elo Named Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Statistics
PHILADELPHIA -- Irma T. Elo, associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, has been appointed chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Health Statistics.
Richard Hodges Named Director of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
PHILADELPHIA -- Richard Hodges has been named the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Hodges will join Penn Oct. 1 from his position as director of the Institute of World Archaeology at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.
Penn Implements New Emergency Notification System
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is launching a new emergency alert communication system that will enable students, faculty, and staff to quickly receive news and instructions during crisis situations.
Announcing Penn Web Enhancements
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students,The arrival of a new academic year is always an exciting time here at Penn. Each new academic cycle offers us the welcome opportunity to greet new students and colleagues, and renew our purpose.
Penn Summer Mentorship Program Graduation Ceremony Showcases Student Projects
WHO: Penn Summer Mentorship Program for high school studentsWHAT: Graduation ceremonyWHERE: Penn Law School, Room G213, 34th Street between Chestnut and Sansom streetsWHEN: Friday, Aug. 3, 10 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Ground-breaking Celebration Set for July 18 for The Radian Student Housing Community
WHAT: A ceremonial ground breaking celebrating the construction of The Radian, a student apartment community in the 3900 block of Walnut Street in Philadelphia, adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania campus and developed by University Partners and Inland American Communities.
Heather Weiss Frattone Named to Post at Penn Law School
PHILADELPHIA -- Heather Weiss Frattone has been named associate dean for career planning and placement at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her appointment is effective July 9.
Penn's MAGPI Unit to Facilitate Global Multicast of "Live Earth" Concert Using Internet2 Technology
WHAT: A live multicast of the "Live Earth" concert series, a global event featuring a 24-hour series of eight concerts that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people in support of a global movement to solve the climate crisis.
Mennonite Photographs at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA - "The Mennonites: Photographs by Larry Towell," which opens at the University of Pennsylvania's Arthur Ross Gallery on July 31, offers 50 photographs documenting a rare visual history of an isolated cultural group. The exhibit, which runs through Sept.
University of Pennsylvania to Build 10-Story Tower Designed to Facilitate Translational Research
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania will construct a $370 million, state-of-the-art biomedical research facility as part of an ongoing commitment to strengthen its international leadership in biomedical discovery.
In the News
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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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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