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Since its temporary closure due to COVID-19, the Penn Museum has launched a newly designed virtual platform that allows visitors to explore the Museum and participate in interactive programs from home.
Conventional wisdom says to never meet your heroes. But don’t tell Ryan Glover.
As hundreds of thousands of protesters continue to march over the death of George Floyd, Penn students across the country are joining the worldwide movement for racial justice.
A group of over 20 protesters marched from LOVE Park to Penn's College Green on Saturday evening, two weeks after the George Floyd protests began in Philadelphia, and primarily demanded the University divest from the Philadelphia Police Department.
Social media posts featuring college students making racist remarks have circulated amid the George Floyd protests, prompting universities across the nation to take appropriate action.
Amid global protests for racial justice and ongoing discriminatory effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Penn professor's controversial tweets about current events have recently surfaced — calling into question how the University should grapple with its own instances of discrimination against marginalized communities.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd to demand racial justice, and a slew of presidential primaries, former President Barack Obama addressed the Class of 2020 in a virtual commencement speech on Sunday afternoon.
Penn’s performing arts groups have struggled to coordinate, rehearse, and perform their work remotely since students left campus, and are concerned about how to do so in the fall.
In response to the recent death of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, protests have erupted in many cities across the United States. Thousands of demonstrators in Philadelphia have marched for nine consecutive days now, demanding racial justice and systematic change.
We’ve been here before, saw the looting, and went through the same emotions: anger, sadness, grief, despair, and guilt. We've said their names countless times: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland. The examples are endless. These names trend for a while. We experience widespread outrage. “Fake woke” behavior arises. We put the hashtags on our social media. #Sayhername, #icantbreathe, #blacklivesmatter. And repeat. The problem is that the level of concern we express online doesn’t match the everyday behavior we exhibit. Until people practice anti-racist behavior, nothing will change.
A video allegedly featuring a Penn student directing a racial slur at a peer while they both were in high school has recently circulated on social media. The Penn student denies the allegations, claiming that the slurs have been falsely attributed to him.
Have you ever wondered what it is like to go to college in a foreign country where you will have to speak, read, and write in a different language? Well, let me tell you that attending any university, especially an Ivy League institution, is challenging enough, and if you add to this the complexity of converting the information you receive from your professors, classmates, and friends to your native language, for me Spanish, we are talking about a task that will always require extra effort.
Physical distancing measures and size limits on gatherings have created unique challenges for students of faith in the Penn community, altering the way they worship and conduct religious practices.
Fuel Our Heroes, a student-run campaign that fundraises for frontline medical professionals, launched its Penn-specific branch on May 11 to support Penn Medicine employees during the coronavirus pandemic.
Penn students recently launched Invisible Hands PHL to deliver essentials — for free — to elderly, disabled, and immunocompromised Philadelphia residents who are homebound due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Penn students have had their internships, jobs, and summer travel plans canceled as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend daily life, leaving many with spare time to learn.
It seems paradoxical that uncertainty is one of life’s certainties. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged our beliefs and attitudes in a very short time. While many of us are scared about our health and getting our life back to normal, I’ve realized that in my home country, Colombia, people are more terrified to die from hunger than from the virus.
Though the shock of their abruptly canceled season still lingers, Penn baseball has remained connected and active, despite COVID-19 restrictions.
I am a sucker for good endings. (Perhaps that’s why I like the slow build-up of British novels — the focus of my very first English class at Penn that got me hooked on the department.) I think most Penn students would agree. After all, many of us got here through a display of delayed gratification, grinding hard during our teens for the sweet reward of a college acceptance. My high school years did not have real hardships, but on a day-to-day basis it was a little isolating to take different classes from my friends and spend my nights studying instead of socializing.
Graduation ceremonies and Commencement would have been this weekend. Ever since Penn first announced there would be no in-person ceremonies this year, I have been thinking about what graduation means as a first-generation, low-income student, and what it means for my family.
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