How students are spending summer at Penn
The DP spoke with seven students about their experiences with Penn’s summer offerings.
The DP spoke with seven students about their experiences with Penn’s summer offerings.
Dockery, who is currently enrolled in the Wharton Executive MBA Program, was honored on June 18 for his actions in Afghanistan after an October 2012 Taliban attack.
Perelman School of Medicine Dean Jonathan Epstein notified the Penn Med community about Abramson’s July 4 passing in a Monday email.
According to a release, the renovation aimed to modernize the property through choices that capture the environment of Penn’s campus.
“We expect to announce a new restaurant tenant for the ground-floor space in the near future,” Real Estate Services Associate Vice President Rachel Siegert wrote to the DP.
The event combined the Penn Museum’s annual Juneteenth celebration with the Wellness Empowerment Project, a collaboration between the Wharton School and Penn Medicine.
Construction began in January and is expected to be completed in time for the 2027-28 academic year, according to a June 3 press release.
This year’s reports, posted on June 16, include the Senate Committees on Faculty and Academic Mission and on Students and Educational Policy.
The Senate Executive Committee called for a return of authority to the Committee on Open Expression.
The DP spoke to unions and organizations across campus about GET-UP’s impact on their work at Penn.
The final draft is now tentatively due on Nov. 18 — roughly two months after the Committee on Open Expression’s original September deadline.
Penn professors told the DP that while the decision may have limited immediate effects on campus, it could spark broader conversations about equality and transgender rights.
Jameson highlighted Penn community members’ roles in advancing “our nation’s founding ideals” and pointed to the University’s founder as a continuing source of inspiration.
The blistering temperatures come amid preparations for America’s semiquincentennial on Penn’s campus and across the city.
Communications professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, who had led the center for over three decades, will remain part of the center as a director emerita.
On June 3, Penn announced a new Center for Civil Rights in an effort to centralize civil rights resources, streamline the reporting and resolution of complaints, and ensure legal compliance.
The initiative comes from a partnership with Scholars Network “to help build the healthcare workforce of the future,” according to a June 9 press release.
The Red and Blue teamed up with Cornell to sweep the competition.
The rising senior midfielder, who captured All-Ivy honors in 2024 and 2025, hopes to pursue a professional soccer career after graduation.
While the distance running world is plagued with conversations about age and international athletes, the Ivy League’s player retention and roster rotation benefits.
Many Penn student-athletes have nonetheless used redshirts in the past, transferring to other schools after graduating to better their chances of competing professionally or profit from increased NIL opportunities.
Nine total Quakers will be playing elsewhere in the 2026-27 season.
On America’s 250th birthday, Philadelphia ends its stint as a host city.
Columnist Tracy Xie argues that social media has shifted the college experience to begin long before move-in day, replacing uncertainty with connection but also fueling comparison and pressure.
Columnist Idia Enoma reflects on the emotional disorientation of achieving a long-pursued goal, and what it means to want something truly your own.
Columnist Luna Bouhairi encourages incoming Penn students to prioritize exploration over premature specialization.
The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Penn's commitment to “need-based” financial aid falls short when the total cost of attendance continues to climb.
Senior columnist Mritika Senthil explains how Penn exposed its “student-first” facade by firing Hill College House Fellows.
The DP spoke to unions and organizations across campus about GET-UP’s impact on their work at Penn.
Neurology professor and former DEI head Roy Hamilton emphasized “effectiveness and legitimacy” when approaching the role and leading Penn’s diverse standing faculty body.
As he prepares to take the helm of one of the world’s largest corporations, Ternus’ former classmates, teammates, and mentors say the traits defining his career have been visible for decades.