The University will raise the minimum Ph.D. stipend to $38,000, beginning in the coming 2023-24 academic year, the largest one-time increase in Penn’s history.
"Partner your joy with humility,” says
#PennGrad
speaker
@laurenepowell
, founder & president of
@EmCollective
.
“Even as we use our heads, we must learn to bow them. Humility and ambition need not contradict each other."
The University will suspend normal operations on Thursday, February 8, 2018. All classes and University-sponsored events are cancelled on this date. We encourage everyone to stay safe as we celebrate this historic Super Bowl victory!
#FlyEaglesFly
It’s almost time to
#MoveTheSphinx
at
@pennmuseum
!
This week, The Penn Museum is moving its colossal 25,000-pound Sphinx of Ramses II to the Main Entrance Hall of the Museum. It will be the first time the more than 3,000-year-old Sphinx, which is the la…
Penn applauds any student who peacefully asserts their right to protest. Participation in these activities will not negatively affect any student's application to the University of Pennsylvania.
@PreviewingPenn
@DeanFurda
Then the Librarian thought of something she hadn't before. What if Gerald Ford Trapped in an Elevator Day, she thought, doesn't come from a plaque. What if Gerald Ford Trapped in an Elevator Day, perhaps, means much more than that?”
Happy Gerald Ford Trapped in an Elevator Day!
.
@lizzo
shared a message of thanks to
@PennMedicine
's
#healthcareheroes
and treated HUP ER staff to lunch earlier this week. Thank you so much for your kind words and generosity!
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
– Ben Franklin
#280Characters
Use those extra characters wisely, Quakers.
Congrats to Penn sophomore Claire Sliney,
#Oscars2019
winner in the documentary-short-films category for “Period. End of Sentence”!
It “feels like an out-of-body experience,” says Sliney.
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman of
@PennMedicine
, winners of the 2023
@NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine, shared their thoughts on their newly minted honor at a University press conference.
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Emily Wilson of
@PennSAS
has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow by
@macfound
, receiving the “genius grant.” She has received attention worldwide as the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer’s epic poem the "Odyssey."
#MacFellow
If you’re an international pop star and cannot play big events with thousands of people, what do you do? If you’re
@shakira
, you sign up for an online ancient philosophy course offered by Penn “to make the confinement productive.”
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." -Benjamin Franklin
Happy New Year, Quakers! 🎉 🎉 🎉
Penn Vice Provost
@ZekeEmanuel
has been tapped as member of a team of leading public health and scientific experts to advise on the Biden-Harris COVID-19 response.
The
@PennMedicine
community gathered Monday to toast messenger RNA pioneers and Nobel laureates Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. “You guys are the heart of Penn Medicine, you guys are the researchers of the future,” Weissman told the crowd.
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On this day in 1898, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first black woman to graduate from
@PennLaw
, was born. Alexander received five degrees from
@Penn
. A pioneer in women’s rights, legal rights, civil rights, and the rights of African Americans, Alex…
Gather with your friends and family around the vertical conveyance of your choice, and celebrate Gerald Ford Trapped in an Elevator Day! 🎉 🎉 🎉
@upennlib
Last night,
@VergeAero
(a company based out of
@PennovationWork
) flew a drone light show as a tribute to medical staff and essential workers on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thanks to
@PennAthletics
&
@PennDPS
for their help in coordinating the event.
Today, Penn announced that P. Roy and Diana Vagelos have made a gift of $83.9M to strengthen science research and education initiatives across
@PennSAS
. This is the largest single gift ever made to the School and among the largest in Penn's history.
Before tonight, only 12 people had won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competitive categories. Sirs Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice and I joined that group when we won an Emmy for our…
Franklin Field, home to
@pennathletics
&
@pennrelays
, is celebrating its quasquicentennial. The stadium opened on April 20, 1895, with the first running of the Penn Relay Carnival. It is the oldest college stadium in the country.
Last night, 3,731 learned of their acceptance to Penn! The admitted students come from all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, 104 foreign countries, and 1/7th are the first in their families to attend college.
#Penn22
💙❤️
In an opinion piece for the
@PhillyInquirer
, Vukan R. Vuchic of
@PennEngineers
argues that a proposed South Philadelphia sports complex is too car-centric.
Two hundred and sixty-eight years ago this month, the first classes were held at what would become the University of Pennsylvania. Penn is also home to the first teaching hospital, medical school, law school, and collegiate school of business in the US.