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The Philadelphia demonstration was part of the second “Nationwide Day of Action” — organized by Labor for Higher Education and Higher Education Labor United.
“I’m horrified by the Trump Administration’s actions that are hurting many of our communities, including our college campuses,” Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Joanna McClinton (D-Phila.) wrote in a statement to the Daily Pennsylvanian.
High School of the Future and Horace Howard Furness High School — both within the School District of Philadelphia — were selected to participate in The Academy at Penn, a five-year educational initiative.
The award funding will support Tertuliano’s research objectives, including graduate student projects and a broader initiative to make his work more accessible.
Ten professors took turns reciting passages from documents such as the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers at the April 7 event.
The visa revocations at Penn come as 1968 Wharton graduate and President Donald Trump’s second administration cracks down on international students across the country.
Hosted by Natives at Penn and the Greenfield Intercultural Center, the Penn Powwow is a tradition that aims to celebrate diversity on campus and honor the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape tribe.
Louis Chung is the founder of Quickmeets, a dating app that matches users based on images of an ideal match that the user can upload onto the platform.
The gift, made by Scott A. Wieler and Mary Baily Wieler, aims to strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration between business and social innovation at Penn.
Over 100 Penn students, faculty, and community members gathered on College Green to participate in Take Back the Night, an international campaign focused on ending sexual, domestic, and interpersonal violence.
Demonstrators held signs bearing anti-Trump slogans and chanted as they marched from City Hall to Independence Mall, where several members of Congress and Pennsylvania legislators spoke.
Since the start of the year, several finance companies — including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Deloitte US — have laid off thousands of employees and cut junior positions.
Penn currently has eight active NEH grants, covering a variety of research areas including renovations to the Penn Museum, literature analysis for low resource languages, and AI applications in archaeology.