In English faculty Lorene Cary’s first play, Harriet Tubman toggles between her 19th-century life and a present-day Philadelphia prison where she recruits soldiers to fight with her in the Civil War.

A new Penn Libraries show features materials from the Joanna Banks collection. A companion symposium on Black women writing across genres begins on Thursday, Feb. 20.

View a video from students, staff, and faculty from across campus, sending a positive message to our Penn community.  Our hearts go out to our Penn community and families around the globe that have been impacted by the recent coronavirus outbreak. Let's stand together to keep Penn healthy, welcoming and understanding.  Produced by Penn Global International Student and Scholar Services in partnership with Penn students, staff, and faculty.

This year marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment as well as the bicentennial of Susan B. Anthony’s birth. Penn experts reflect on Anthony’s legacy and voting rights today.

Graduate students and faculty across Penn met to share their work and discuss solutions for issues faced by women in STEM.

Penn continues to monitor and provide Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) updates online. You can check the Student Health Service and Campus Health websites for updates. Major notifications and announcements may also be shared via email.

Join us on October 4-6, 2019 for a weekend-long conference and celebration taking place on Penn’s Campus bringing together alumni and students for dialogue centered on issues of cultural identity and intersectionalities including topics specific to the Black, Latinx, Native, Asian, LGBTQ+, Muslim, first generation, low-income communities. We welcome and invite alumni and allies from all backgrounds as well as all current Penn undergraduate and graduate students.

César de la Fuente, PhD, has joined the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as a Presidential Assistant Professor in the departments of Psychiatry and Microbiology, in addition to the department of Bioengineering at Penn. 

Sarah J. Jackson was appointed as Annenberg Presidential Associate Professor.  Her work focuses on narratives of race and gender in the media.

Grace Calhoun, director of athletics and recreation at Penn, has been named the incoming chair of the NCAA Division I Council, a high-level group responsible for the day-to-day decision-making for Division I.