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Move-Out: Tips for a cleaner, greener, easier experience
Sign with info on off-campus move-out.

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Move-Out: Tips for a cleaner, greener, easier experience

Penn offices and community partners have options for off-campus pickups, on-campus donations, and additional curbside trash pickup days aimed at keeping the neighborhood clean and limiting what ends up in the landfill.

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Penn’s Class of 2027 marks the midway at U-Night
Students at Penn’s U-Night.

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Penn’s Class of 2027 marks the midway at U-Night

The 6th annual U-Night brought the Class of 2027 to High Rise Field to mark the two-year point in their undergraduate journey.

Penn Today Staff

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Penn breaks ground on Gail P. Riepe Center for Advanced Veterinary Education
Eight people on stage with shovels for ceremonial groundbreaking.

The University of Pennsylvania and School of Veterinary Medicine community celebrated the groundbreaking of the Gail P. Riepe Center for Advanced Veterinary Education. (Left to right:) Scarlett Loya, Amy Durham, J. Larry Jameson, Jim Riepe, Gail Riepe, Andrew M. Hoffman, Robert Marookian, and Barbara Dallap Schaer.

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Penn breaks ground on Gail P. Riepe Center for Advanced Veterinary Education

A gift from Penn alumni Gail and Jim Riepe will support the construction of the 11,800-square-foot facility at Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center campus.

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The soul of an artist, the mind of a mathematician
From left: Shreya Arya, Miguel Lopez, Rob Ghrist, and Julian Gould

From left: Postdoctoral researcher Shreya Arya, Ph.D. candidate Miguel Lopez, PIK Professor Rob Ghrist, and Ph.D. candidate Julian Gould. 

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The soul of an artist, the mind of a mathematician

An artist, author, engineer, mathematician, and mentor, PIK Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science Robert Ghrist embraces innovation to enrich each of these roles.

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Penn Athletics’ 2024-25 senior student-athlete awards

Penn Athletics’ 2024-25 senior student-athlete awards

At the annual Quakers Choice Awards banquet on April 30. Five awards were handed out. Among the recipients were Matt Fallon from men’s swimming & diving, and women’s lacrosse standout Anna Brandt.

Concrete panels as teaching tools, materials testing, and outdoor sculptures
Richard Garber standing outside in front of concrete panel

Architect Richard Garber created and teaches the graduate course Matter Making and Testing: Designing with Next Generation Precast Concrete.

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Concrete panels as teaching tools, materials testing, and outdoor sculptures

On view outside the Weitzman School of Design are three freestanding concrete panels designed and made by students in a unique graduate seminar that partners with a local concrete-fabrication plant

Louisa Shepard

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Empowering high school youth through immersive art mentorship
Fourth-years Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Nicholas Roney were awarded a 2025 President's Engagement Prize to pursue their PIXEL project. The pair will collaborate to bring art mentorship, creative skill-building, and industry networking opportunities to under-resourced high school students in the greater Philadelphia area.

Fourth-year students Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Nicholas Roney were awarded a 2025 President’s Engagement Prize to pursue their PIXEL project. The pair will collaborate to bring art mentorship, creative skill-building, and industry networking opportunities to under-resourced high school students in the greater Philadelphia area.

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Empowering high school youth through immersive art mentorship

Penn fourth-years Ejun Mary Hong and Jack Nicholas Roney will use a President’s Engagement Prize to expand their existing initiative dedicated to connecting under-resourced high school students in Philadelphia with art mentorship, creative skill-building, and industry networking opportunities.

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