Welcome to Summer at Penn
Penn is the summer destination of choice to pre-college, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as doctoral students, visiting scholars, researchers, working professionals, athletes, and alumni from across the globe. These web pages provide information pertaining to summer at the University. Penn also is host to many conferences, seminars, and events during the summer. Visit Destination Penn to plan your next conference or event.
Summer Housing Resources - Intern Housing, Summer Housing, and more.
To post announcements, request information, or offer web site suggestions go to Talkback.
News & Announcements
- Go Green!! Send a free Penn E-Card, a greener way to share the red and the blue!
- Penn Museum - Fulfilling a Prophecy: The Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania. This exhibit features never before displayed objects from the private collections of Lenape people in Pennsylvania, in addition to historic and contemporary photographs, and archaeological objects from the collections of Penn Museum. Ancient masks, dolls, jewelry, and other traditional arts are featured, as well as a number of once-secret family heirlooms, rich with hidden Lenape symbolism, dating from the early 1800s.
- Information on Fall courses and timetable will soon be available at the Office of the Registrar. Be sure to check back to this web site often.
- Programs for children at the Penn Museum - Adventurous children ages 7 through 13 can participate in Anthropologists in the Making, a day camp organized by Penn Museum's Education Department. Through interactive gallery tours, art activities, games and special guest performances, campers travel through time and across continents. Each week highlights a different theme, offering campers the opportunity to enjoy one week or all eight. For details about this year's themes visit Camps & Recreation.
- Take a class with Penn's Department of Recreation. Check frequently for information on summer instructional classes in pilates, yoga, dance, and martial arts at PennRec.
Highlights for 2009
- Morris Arboretum - Check here for information surrounding lectures, events, classes, culture and travel offerings. The interdisciplinary center integrates art, science and the humanities. Thousands of rare and lovely woody plants, including some of Philadelphia's oldest, rarest, and largest trees, are set in a romantic, 92-acre, Victorian landscape garden of winding paths, streams, flowers and special garden areas.
- Trustees' Council of Penn Women Summer Research Award provides summer research stipends to female faculty, or faculty members whose research is centrally concerned with the role of women in society, science or arts and letters. For details contact The Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.
- Center for Africana Studies - Join the Center for a variety of enriching lectures, poetry, and music performances.
- Provost's Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program - The Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships announces the establishment of this new program for rising sophomores that provides opportunity to assist faculty members with their research during the summer.
- Arts at Penn - Celebration of all things that are art. Current and upcoming links to literary art, humanities, museums, gallery openings and exhibits, music, theater, dance, film and academic programs.
Summer Reminders
- If you're visiting Penn this summer be sure to check Campus Construction for information about construction happening on campus. Summer construction can often effect traffic patterns on and around campus.
- Are you a Penn student planning to study abroad next summer? Are you an international student interested in studying at Penn next summer? Visit Penn's Office of International Programs.
- Best Practices - Conference Services guidelines for summer programs happening at the University this summer.
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