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Campus & Community
Summer construction in full swing on campus
Summer construction in full swing on campus
Before student Move-In, construction teams work to advance building projects and conduct maintenance. Facilities & Real Estate Services offers updates on a few projects.
What’s That? The grotesques on the Evans Building
What’s That? The grotesques on the Evans Building
The kooky figures that perch above passersby along 40th Street.
Where scientific nationalism meets tradition
Where scientific nationalism meets tradition
In May, John Kehayias led a Penn Global Seminar to Japan, exploring ideas of wartime-era scientific nationalism while cultivating cross-cultural exchange.
What’s That? The Paleontologist’s Cottage
What’s That? The Paleontologist’s Cottage
The Paleontologist’s Cottage at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens celebrates plants with ties to the age of dinosaurs.
An empty outdoor space is transformed into a social garden
An empty outdoor space is transformed into a social garden
A 2023 Project for Progress initiative, the Breathing Room at Sayre High School was unveiled this spring.
ICA presents dual new exhibits for summer, fall
ICA presents dual new exhibits for summer, fall
The Institute of Contemporary Art’s summer and fall exhibitions highlight an eclectic collection of yard art and domestic interiors and scenes that are both familiar and uncomfortable.
Showing up for Penn in London
Showing up for Penn in London
A capacity audience attended an academic symposium in London titled “Frontiers of Knowledge and Discovery: Leading in a Changing World.”
Art Matters: Painter Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Forward Together’
Art Matters: Painter Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Forward Together’
The powerful print depicts Harriet Tubman, traveling at night and following the North Star, guiding a group of enslaved African Americans on their perilous journey to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw named inaugural faculty director of the Arthur Ross Gallery
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw named inaugural faculty director of the Arthur Ross Gallery
Shaw, a renowned scholar and teacher of American art who has been at Penn for almost 20 years, assumed the new role effective June 1.
Introducing the West Philadelphia Creative Grants
Introducing the West Philadelphia Creative Grants
Chloe Reison, associate director of The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, explains the West Philadelphia Creative Grants and how to apply.
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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