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Penn Connects > Campus Master Plan
A Vision for the FuturePenn is Making History -- every day
- August 5, 2009
It's So Easy Being Green at Penn
Just ask Sean Pitt, C'09, who was recently featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about eco-conscious college students and green dorms.
"If I can do little things to reduce my negative impact on the environment, then there is no reason for me not to do so," says Pitt, 22, who earned a degree in anthropology and political science.
Pitt is working on campus this summer before heading to Oxford for graduate studies. For the last four years, he has worked at reducing his carbon footprint by doing the little things that really add up: reducing his water consumption and using eco-friendly cleaning products in his dorm.
Penn is also helping green-minded students take steps to reduce their collective carbon footprint. For example, students can trade in regular light bulbs for more efficient CFL ones, which saved 131,000 kilowatt hours of electricity in 2008. In dorms, the University is installing environmentally friendly showerheads and more energy-efficient laundry machines and toilets. Students can also pick up eco-friendly dorm products at the Penn Bookstore.» more like this in Going Green | Innovation
- July 23, 2009
Taking it to YouTube: Penn Students Talk about Financial Aid
Watch as Penn students talk candidly about what it means to be at Penn, and why financial aid is so important to them.
You'll hear a different story from each of these young scholars -- their backgrounds, their impressions of Penn, their experiences on campus. But in all of them you'll hear the same confidence -- about their role at Penn and their readiness to change the world.
"Penn students imagine great things for themselves, and great things are possible for them at Penn," says President Amy Gutmann. "Penn opens doors for them, and they do amazing things -- they truly realize their potential."
But Penn's financial aid is more than just about opening doors. It's also about a commitment to one simple belief:
At Penn, diversity and excellence go together.
» more like this in Scholarships
- July 10, 2009
The Power of Propagation: Morris Arboretum's Internship Program Turns 30
When the Morris Arboretum established its internship program in 1979, it changed the educational landscape for aspiring horticulturists. Offering paid internships in nine specialties to men and women interested in pursuing careers and research in horticulture, for 30 years the program has provided a much-needed inroad to a rarefied field.
Now, thanks to a gift from Martha Wallace and her husband, former University Trustee Edward Kane, C’71, to endow the ninth and until-now unfunded internship, the program can look ahead with more confidence than ever.
“This wonderful gift from Marty and Ed brings the internship program to a new level, and solidifies the Arboretum’s core identity as an educational institution” says Paul Meyer, the F. Otto Haas Director of the Arboretum.
For Jeremy Jungels, the inaugural recipient of the Wallace Endowed Internship in Plant Propagation who entered the Arboretum program fresh from a master’s program in ecology, the internship has been a turning point -- "my transition into the horticulture field."» more like this in Going Green | Scholarships
- July 6, 2009
Penn's Rachleff Scholars: A New Kind of Engineering Student
At Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science, innovation happens every day -- and not just in classrooms and labs as students and faculty push the boundaries of technology. It happens almost as often in the School's bold new academic programming: classes and initiatives designed to open new doors for the engineers of tomorrow.
For the past year, Rachleff Scholars, SEAS's new research-based honors program, has been doing just that.Designed to promote research among the top 5-10% of SEAS undergraduate students, the program is committed to getting its scholars (recruited into the program before they matriculate) hooked on research early and enmeshed in a vibrant network of faculty and student researchers that will keep them moving forward.
» more like this in Innovation
- June 23, 2009
State of the Art: Penn Photography Students On Their First Grand Tour
This spring, a dozen PennDesign students took their first "grand tour" -- not of Europe, but of Beijing, China, where they spent two weeks "in pursuit of an image": exploring, through photography, "the contradictions and significance of China's radically shifting contemporary cultural climate."
It was the University's first-ever "studio abroad" opportunity for photography students, made possible by the new Howard A. Silverstein and Patricia Bleznak Silverstein Photography Program.
Prior to their departure, the students -- an even mix of grads and undergrads -- immersed themselves in Chinese language, history, and culture, while honing their conceptual targets and photojournalistic strategies. Once in Beijing, they spent their time traveling and shooting for an assigned research project.
Back at Penn, students displayed their work in an exhibit called "East West South North," now on view with an accompanying catalog through June 26 at the Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery.
» more like this in Around the World | Arts