Jill DiSanto | Penn Today

Advice for the Class of 2018

Two campus residents have some advice for incoming freshman. Pace yourself—Rome wasn’t built in a day. Maintain reasonable expectations. Enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of living on campus.

Veterans Upward Bound at Penn Prepares Former Soldier for Engineering Success

Tyrell McCurbin is a man with determination.

Senior Leads Penn Women’s Ice Hockey Club Into the 2014-15 Season

Alyssa Johncola is an unstoppable force at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s the president, right winger and former substitute goalie of the women’s ice hockey team, a club made up of both graduate and undergraduate students at Penn.

New Students Volunteer in West Philadelphia as Part of Penn Community Teamworks

Sixteen incoming graduate students and one alumna of the University of Pennsylvania spent the day making a house a home in West Philadelphia.

Taking ‘The Condom Pledge’: Penn Student’s Project Leads to Global Changes

Jason Parad is changing lives, and he’s doing it with condoms.

PennCap Increases Access, Guides Freshmen Through Undergraduate Years at Penn

Since mid-July, a group of 100 students, part of the incoming undergraduate class of 2018 at the University of Pennsylvania, have been getting an academic jumpstart.

Penn Hosts Program for Inner City Businesses

On July 31, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania hosted the Inner City Capital Connections program, designed to strengthen the capabilities of CEOs of growing inner city businesses in the mid-Atlantic region to raise capital.

A Tale of One Family in Penn’s Kings Court English College House

One of a series of articles about families living in the University of Pennsylvania’s College House system.

A Promise and an Opportunity

Theodore Brandon, a student in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, has long enjoyed helping others, assisting the elderly and volunteering at church.

Penn Alumnus, House Dean Chris Donovan Champions His Love of Cinema

Back in 1992, when movie buff and native Philadelphian Chris Donovan earned his English degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he had little idea of how fortuitous the line “I’ll be back” from The Terminator would become.

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