Welcome to Summer at Penn

News & Announcements

• Spring Preparation for Summer Move In - Summer residents should be planning now for move-in dates, preparations, arrival, and living on campus this summer.

• Information on Summer 2008 courses and timetable will soon be available at the Office of the Registrar. Be sure to check back to this web site often.

• Surviving: The Body of Evidence - New National Science Foundation funded traveling exhibit focuses on the process of human evolution and its outcomes.  April 19, 2008 through May 3, 2009.

• Refer to the 3 Year Academic Calendar for information on class schedules and start/end dates.
  
  
• GAPSA-Provost's Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation - the competitive program for graduate and professional student-conceived interdisciplinary projects that includes an awarded fellowship and the identification of collaborative scholars to work on summer projects.

• 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.
  

• Graduate and Professional New Student Orientation & Campus Tour - Orientation activities are bundled into three sessions continue through August to accommodate the varying schedules of our incoming graduate and professional students.

• 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 2008

• 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.