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LGBT Center by the numbers
A group of people wearing bright colors strike a pose on the patio of the LGBT Center

The LGBT Center’s “Dance Outside with Pride” event in June 2021.

LGBT Center by the numbers

To celebrate the LGBT Center’s 40th anniversary year and in honor of National Coming Out Day, Penn Today takes a look at the numbers.

Kristina Linnea García

A hub for scholarship on ethnicity, race, and immigration
Chenoa Flippen addresses an audience before a panel on Latino voting history.

Chenoa Flippen (left) introduces a panel featuring author Geraldo Cadava and political scientist Michael Jones-Correa, an event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration.

A hub for scholarship on ethnicity, race, and immigration

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration brings together undergraduates, graduates, and faculty across the University to build connections and enhance and fund research. 

Kristen de Groot

Sex workers’ rights
A woman wearing a mask and a white lab coat sits at a table covered in a colorful tablecloth, pills, and packages of medication

Ahealth professional surrounded by medication at one of the clinics for sex workers. (Image: Toorjo Ghose)

Sex workers’ rights

A Fulbright award augments Toorjo Ghose’s work to document and support the social movement happening among sex workers in India against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kristina Linnea García

15 years of GradFest
Liz Magill speaks to the crowd

15 years of GradFest

The special programming for graduate and professional students—which this year includes apple picking, axe throwing, and much, much more—kicked off on Tuesday and ends on Sept. 24.

Lauren Hertzler

Advocating for labor rights
Three men in suits pose together in an office

Julian Lutz (far right) stands with Collin Clibon (far left), an attorney at Spear Wilderman, a firm that represents Local 19 along with other trade unions, and Marty Millz, attorney to Local 19. All three men were Peggy Browning fellows.

Advocating for labor rights

Through a Peggy Browning Fellowship, Penn Carey Law student Julian Lutz spent his summer working at Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 Philadelphia.

Kristina Linnea García

Move-In 2022: By the Numbers
students pushing moving carts

About 6,000 undergraduate students will be moving into the 13 Penn College Houses during Move-In 2022.

Move-In 2022: By the Numbers

With students arriving on Penn’s campus this week to move into the College Houses, Penn Today has compiled links to resources and statistics about the campus Move-In experience.
PennCard Center is poised and ready
students wait in line to get their penn cards

PennCard Center is poised and ready

The staff at the PennCard Center is preparing thousands of official IDs for new students at the start of the 2022-23 school year.

Penn Today Staff

Who, What, Why: Kimeze Teketwe brings Luganda to Penn
Kimeze "Dickson" Teketwe Kimeze “Dickson” Teketwe is a master’s student in the International Education Development program at the Graduate School of Education. He is also a graduate fellow in the Center for Africana Studies and lecturer in the Penn Language Center in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Who, What, Why: Kimeze Teketwe brings Luganda to Penn

The GSE master’s student from Uganda taught the first ever course on this language in the spring of 2022. This fall the program continues with another intro class, followed by an advanced class next spring.

Michele W. Berger

Inside the Quaker’s head
Sophia Zehler removes the Quaker mascot head in costume at the Palestra.

Inside the Quaker’s head

Sophia Zehler recently earned her master’s degree from the Fels Institute of Government. The first-generation Cuban American also spent the year as Penn’s mascot, her third mascotting position in five years.

Michele W. Berger