(On homepage) Students walk through the Norris Square Neighborhood Project’s community garden.
(Image: Eric Sucar)
How food moves around cities
Domenic Vitiello, an urban and regional planning expert, teaches classes that invite students to locations in and around Philadelphia to better understand how its denizens dine.
Melissa Jensen, a lecturer in the Department of English, in her first-year seminar Juvenilia, which ran for the first in the fall semester in 2023.
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The impact of small seminars for new college students
Sixty first-year seminars offer complex subjects in a comfortable group setting, as well as close connections to professors and peers. This year, 10 are also taking part in a pilot program focused on teaching students how to have respectful dialogue around difficult topics.
Penn Ph.D. student Xinlan Emily Hu leads a group of budding engineers and social scientists who study communication across teams. The group has developed a new toolkit aimed at helping researchers analyze and measure teamwork.
Penn’s Move-In Coordinator Program operates out of Residential & Hospitality Services, and staffed by 49 second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students.
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Move-In coordinators help ease transition to college
Forty-eight second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students will be on the ground during Move-In to assist approximately 6,000 new and returning Quakers.
