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Chicago Furniture Bank is up and running, serving the community
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Chicago Furniture Bank is up and running, serving the community

Thanks to a President’s Engagement Prize, Andrew Witherspoon, James McPhail, and Griffin Amdur wasted no time after graduation getting their nonprofit off the ground.

Lauren Hertzler

Third annual Penn Global Week fosters a world-minded campus
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Penn Global Week’s 2017 Arts and Culture Showcase at Perry World House. Photo by Eddy Marenco

Third annual Penn Global Week fosters a world-minded campus

The four-day celebration, from Sept. 11-14, will feature an arts showcase, a brand-new story slam, a passport program, and an information fair.
Sophomore and junior picnic focuses on friends
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President Amy Gutmann poses at the photo booth with College Board members, including Sophomore College Board President Lizzie Youshaei and Junior College Board President Karim El Sewedy, at the sophomore and junior welcome back picnic.

Sophomore and junior picnic focuses on friends

More than 1,250 attended this year’s annual welcome back picnic hosted by the President’s Office on College Green.
Penn welcomes the Class of 2022
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Penn welcomes the Class of 2022

Hailing from 49 states (all but Wyoming), Puerto Rico, and 88 countries around the world, the 2,552 members of the Class of 2022 moved in to Penn on Aug. 22.
Helping the Class of 2022’s first-generation community early on
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Lyndsi Burcham provides information to new Quakers during NSO. 

Helping the Class of 2022’s first-generation community early on

During New Student Orientation, first-generation, high-need students find an increased level of support, community and resources to help the transition into campus life.
Incoming freshman experience college and community ahead of first semester
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Incoming freshman experience college and community ahead of first semester

In its 32nd year, the weeklong Africana Studies Summer Institute brought 65 incoming freshmen to campus in July, introducing them to the program’s courses, professors, graduate students, and fellow undergraduates.

Louisa Shepard , Louisa Shepard

Navigating urban waters, with an interdisciplinary approach
PPEH Summer Research Group

Navigating urban waters, with an interdisciplinary approach

With independent research projects and immersive experiences on and near Philadelphia’s waterways, summer fellows with the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities are collaborating to develop new ways of learning and sharing knowledge.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Vet students’ goat dairy aims to fill a nutrition gap in Gambia
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Briana Wilson, a third-year student at Penn Vet, is helping her peers establish a commercial goat dairy operation in Gambia.

Vet students’ goat dairy aims to fill a nutrition gap in Gambia

Briana Wilson plans on becoming a small-animal vet, but this summer she is immersing herself in far-flung ventures in faraway places at the Gambia Goat Dairy, helping to create a sustainable, commercial herd of milking goats.

Katherine Unger Baillie