Campus & Community

Commemorating Veterans Day

What is traditionally a flag raising at College Green moved indoors due to the rainy weather, but the celebration was no less meaningful.

Lauren Hertzler

An ‘energetic’ Election Day at Penn

Student volunteers from Penn Leads the Vote greeted voters at Penn Commons, helping them determine their registration status and answering questions.

Lauren Hertzler

Want a good read? Check out these award-winning stories

From the opening of the Penn Medicine Pavilion to the intricacies of broadband expansion—read some recent Penn Today stories that won district awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Dee Patel

Two Penn faculty elected American Physical Society fellows

Paulo Arratia of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Evelyn Thomson of the School of Arts & Sciences received the honor of being elected by their peers in recognition of their contributions to the field.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Red and blue pride to last a lifetime

President Liz Magill’s inauguration on Friday coincided with Penn’s Homecoming festivities, making for an extra-spirited weekend on campus.

Lauren Hertzler



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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