Student Life
The Graduation Issue 2022: 2020-2021 Year in Review
Relive the Class of 2022's junior year at Penn, which featured two fully virtual semesters as well as celebrations following Joe Biden's the election as president.
The Graduation Issue 2022: 2019-2020 Year in Review
Relive the Class of 2022's sophomore year at Penn, which was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic turning the world upside down.
Smokes' celebrates ‘30 years of pandemonium’ with Kenn Kweder
On May 10, Kweder and his long-time guitarist Mark Teague will perform at Smokes' for the 1,500th consecutive Tuesday night, a streak that survived the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year's Baccalaureate Ceremony moves to beginning of Senior Week
This year's ceremony will feature speeches from Interim President Wendell Pritchett, University Chaplain Chaz Howard, and guest speaker and Penn professor Dorothy Roberts.
After a 39-year intermission, Stephen Dansiger will graduate from Penn this May
Dansiger will return to Penn on May 15 to graduate in the third cohort of students in Penn’s online Master of Health Care Innovation program.
Five facts about Penn’s 2022 commencement speaker, Ken Burns
The award-winning documentary filmmaker will deliver Penn’s 2022 commencement speech on May 16.
May Fair to return to Clark Park on May 7 for first time since 2019
This year, the fair will feature about 60 vendors, selling jewelry, candles, pottery, and knitted goods, and about 20 nonprofit community tables.
‘Overlooked, ignored’: Black Du Bois residents frustrated with demographics, living conditions
Du Bois College House was founded in 1972 to promote retention and academic success of Black students at Penn. Fifty years later, however, Black students drew attention to the increasing number of non-Black residents.
Hey Day loses its signature biteable hats
At this year's Hey Day, juniors will don plastic hats instead of the classic styrofoam as they walk down Locust Walk on April 28.
Period@Penn pilot program stocks campus bathrooms with free period products
During the week of April 8, members of Period@Penn placed a total of more than 6,300 Always brand menstrual pads and tampons in bathrooms in 12 high-traffic buildings.
Penn Sustainability highlights environmental initiatives on campus during Earth Week events
Earth Week was held from April 18 to April 22.
Penn COVID-19 case count decreases for the first time in two months
A total of 304 community members tested positive for COVID-19 last week — down 479 from the week before — during the five-day period when indoor masks were required in public spaces.
Kite and Key tour guides to be paid starting fall 2022
Members of Penn’s Kite and Key Society, the oldest student volunteer organization on campus, will receive compensation for their work within the society starting in fall 2022.
Penn Rocketry launches eight student-assembled rockets in Pittsburgh
Penn Rocketry — a student group founded by College and Wharton sophomore Scott Shrager in November 2021 — traveled to Pittsburgh on Sunday to launch eight high-powered model rockets.
Sophomores celebrate their Penn halfway point as U-Night returns following a two-year hiatus
U-Night, organized by the 2024 Class Board, is returning for the first time since 2019 and will take place on College Green from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Penn drops indoor mask mandate following change in City of Philadelphia guidance
The change in COVID-19 masking policy came five days after Penn and the City of Philadelphia began enforcing an indoor mask mandate in non-classroom settings.
Demanding divestment, Fossil Free Penn is camping out on College Green
FFP's demands include Penn's public condemnation of the fossil fuel industry, defunding the University's Police Department, and banning oil and gas companies from job recruitment programming.
‘Massive shoes to fill’: Penn Hillel’s Allison Sorgeloos announces departure
In an email sent to students and alumni of Penn Hillel, Sorgeloos announced that she is leaving Penn to start a new job as a consultant for a nonprofit organization in Washington.
Penn Big Brothers Big Sisters branch cultivates relationships between Penn and Phila. students
The program provides one-on-one mentoring opportunities where Penn student "bigs" meet with their "littles" at their Philadelphia school for lunch once a week.