Campus & Community

Dear Benny,I’m interested in working at Penn and was wondering if you could tell me how I can apply? Do you have to be on some sort of special list? Do you have to know somebody? I’ve heard so many different things. And where are the jobs advertised? Please explain.— Job-Seeker Joan

These posts, many of which are submitted late at night or in the early morning hours, often reveal mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion.

An interdisciplinary panel discussion about immigration—especially as it relates to U.S. cities—brought together nearly 40 people from all walks of life at a recent event hosted by International House Philadelphia and Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, a West Philadelphia Arab arts and education nonprofit.

In the early 1950s, Penn had already been years into discussions about a “much-needed campus for women students,” wrote R. Damon Childs for the Pennsylvania Triangle, a student publication, then of the University’s engineering and fine arts schools.

PROBLEM-SOLVERS: In their first year of medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine, Phil Williams, Naveen Jain, and Jun Jeon attended Problem Night, a Penn HealthX event designed to pair people who had been thinking about health care problems with those who wanted to help solve them.

“Rasputin,” an opera composed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Jay Reise, was performed in Moscow last weekend, part of a celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.

As a freshman identifying as a first-generation, low-income student, Sebastián González searched for a space at the University of Pennsylvania where he felt at home. After seeing a Facebook post advertising the Penn First Summit, a town hall for FGLI students on campus last year, his world changed.

“When I lead the NROTC at Penn, I don’t ask what school a student is from,” says Marine Corps Col. Kenneth DeTreux, the commanding officer of the Philadelphia Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Consortium.

Since the Pennovation Center’s founding in 2016, one of the many visions of its purpose has been to serve as a stepping stone for Philadelphia startups.