Campus & Community

College Day ’12 for Lea Students at Penn

WHAT:           College Day 2012, when students from Lea Elementary School will become honorary college students at the University of Pennsylvania. The goal is to excite students about the college experience, so they will be motivated to work hard in middle and high school and strive for a college education.  WHEN:          

Julie McWilliams

A Day in the Life of Penn, Fall 2012

Just before sunrise on Nov. 14, the day’s first baby was born at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Around midnight, a Penn Law student closed the day studying, surrounded by books.

Q&A with Ira Harkavy

After Ira Harkavy had just finished his Ph.D. at Penn, his mentor in the history department, Lee Benson, delivered an address that called for practitioners in communities to work together with academics.

Heather A. Davis

Food for fines

Faculty and staff with library fines—take note. Through November, Penn Libraries is sponsoring the “Food for Fines” program to benefit Philabundance. For each item donated, $1 will be credited towards a library account, up to a maximum of $20.

Visitors can watch conservators work at Penn Museum

Dear Benny: A friend of mine visited the Penn Museum recently and got to see an Egyptian coffin being restored by a conservator. My friend was told this is a new attraction at the Museum. Can you tell me more about this program? —Mummy MysteryDear MM:

Tanya Barrientos



In the News


Philadelphia Inquirer

Scholars at risk in their own countries find a new home at Penn

Penn Global’s Scholars-at-Risk program is featured. Global’s Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Scott Moore, Penn Carey Law’s Eric Feldman, and Wharton’s Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, along with former and current scholars Angel Alvarado, Pavel Golubev, and Jawad Moradi are interviewed.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Penn will remain SAT optional for the next admission cycle

Penn will remain standardized test optional for the 2024-25 admissions cycle, with remarks from Dean of Admissions Whitney Soule.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making

Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods says that the interment of 19 Black Philadelphians at Eden Cemetery represents a reckoning with the Museum’s colonial past and an act of reconciliation with the local community.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Here’s what these youth advocates have to say about Philly’s truancy problem, and how they would fix it

The Netter Center for Community Partnerships has more than 30 years of investment in connecting resources that address truancy, such as establishing after-school programming.

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6ABC.com

Chinatown residents brainstorm different ideas for Fashion District instead of proposed 76ers arena

Rashida Ng of the Weitzman School of Design and colleagues attended the Save Chinatown Coalition to propose different ideas besides the 76ers arena for Philadelphia’s Fashion District.

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