The initiative’s doctoral students recently gathered for an intimate networking opportunity alongside the University’s president, provost, and school deans.
In theater-inspired workshops, Career Services helps students prepare for the job market by thinking on their feet.
Min Jae Kim is pursuing an M.D./Ph.D. in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Zijian (William) Niu is a fourth-year in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Marc Marín Webb, who studied architecture in Berlin and Barcelona, is studying the impact of genocide on the built heritage of the Yezidi community in Iraq.
Penn Upward Bound high school students from West Philadelphia got a tour of the Penn Smart Aviary, GRASP Lab, and the Penn Vet Working Dog Center during a visit to Pennovation Works.
Ruiz, a certified advanced practice nurse with expertise in college health, will lead the student-facing clinical team and will oversee the medical care and behavioral health services.
Hours of preparation go into dozens of student performances, a highlight of the thriving performing arts scene on campus.
Boris Striepen of Penn Vet organized the First Biennial Cryptosporidium Meeting, bringing together researchers and clinicians from around the world to discuss the problems and progress around the parasite and the diarrheal disease it causes.
Research led by Michael Platt uncovers the neural pathways for primate reciprocity, social support, and empathy.
Penn Engineers have developed a novel method for manufacturing CAR T cells using lipid nanoparticles as delivery vehicles.
Students Sade Taiwo and Kyndall Nicholas, community member Janice Sykes-Ross, faculty member Eugenia South, and staff member Colleen Winn were honored for their leadership and service to the community.
Wellness at Penn and MERT partnered for a Narcan giveaway and training last week on Locust Walk.
Penn is one of 10 universities participating in the Higher Education Sexual Misconduct and Awareness survey this spring, building upon similar undertakings in 2015 and 2019.
The second installment of the School of Arts & Sciences’ new dialogue series featured a discussion about the current state of discourse around universities.
Ph.D. students Jacqueline Wallis and Afton Greco are embedded at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia, where they give philosophy lessons on curriculum-relevant topics and run an after-school Philosophy Club.
To commemorate Baldwin’s approaching centennial, the Lotus Collective is hosting weekly readings and discussions of his work at Kelly Writers House.
Researchers shed light on archaea, a single-cell microorganism, to discover how proteins determine what shape a cell will take and how that form may function.
Penn anthropologists in the Center for Experimental Ethnography led workshops at Ritsumeikan University on performance, film, mapping, sound, and collaging.
How do solar farms impact soil health? It’s a question that master’s student Hannah Winn is exploring at the central Pennsylvania site where solar energy production is helping Penn progress toward carbon neutrality.
In his dissertation research, joint communication and political science doctoral student Nicholas Dias searches for new ways to gauge voter competency.
Sociology Ph.D. candidate Olivia Hu is studying how people choose romantic partners across race lines, and how those relationships affect their understandings of social difference.
The U.S. Department of State’s flagship international educational exchange program named Penn a Fulbright U.S. Student Program ‘top producing institution’ this academic year, with 30 students and alumni offered an award.
New study led by Penn and Boston University provides the most compelling data yet to suggest excess mortality rates from chronic illnesses and other natural causes were driven by COVID-19 infections.
Through study of the fur and wampum trade between the Lenape and Dutch in the 1600s, fourth-year history Ph.D. candidate Molly Leech is aiming to recenter Indigenous contributions to global trade.
The Pan Asian Graduate Student Association rang in the Year of the Wood Dragon.
The School of Arts & Sciences launched the ‘Living the Hard Promise’ series with a conversation examining the purpose, history, and challenges of open expression across campus.
The annual event this year featured a discussion between Rabbi David Wolpe and alum, actor, writer, and director Jonah Platt, along with student performances and the presentation of awards.
The second-year student in the School of Dental Medicine is working to raise awareness of a gangrenous infection called noma and map where cases happen.
Across Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, students and professors are devising imaginative ways to bring their scientific work to the public.
Philosophy Ph.D. student Vanessa Schipani taught the SNF Paideia course Science Communication in Democracy, based on her dissertation research.
If there’s news at Penn, you’ll find it here. We strive to bring you faculty, staff, and student profiles, research updates, and the latest happenings on campus.