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"The world needs you." These words from Interim President J. Larry Jameson echoed through Franklin Field as the Class of 2024 celebrated the culmination of their journey to Penn's 268th Commencement Ceremony. Read More: bit.ly/3wLpzhS

A letter in @upennlib's @philorch archives led to a fascinating string of research by librarians. The letter, typewritten in Spanish, was sent from Buenos Aires to Philadelphia in July 1959 looking for information on Tchaikovsky's time in our fair city. bit.ly/3QlGMVI

The latest episodes of the @Wharton’s faculty research podcast, “Ripple Effect,” celebrate National Financial Literacy Awareness month by discussing how AI may help in financial literacy challenges and more. @whartonknows bit.ly/3xRFpI1

Discover how volunteers like Lolita Jackson, ENG’89, and Michael Krone, C’19, L’24, WG’24, are working to make this year’s Alumni Weekend an unforgettable occasion. #penninspires pennpri.de/3xY5l4s

GEAR UP, an initiative offered by the Population Aging Research Center (@PennPARC) and @PennLDI, gives students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds hands-on experience and mentoring to address a global challenge. bit.ly/3QgMaco

Five Penn affiliated faculty have been elected to @americanacad, an honorary society and independent research center. They are recognized for their contributions to mathematical and physical sciences and social and behavioral sciences. bit.ly/3WhPhVo

Michael Mann of @PennSAS and colleagues predict a record-breaking 33 named storms for the 2024 North Atlantic hurricane season. It is the highest count ever projected. bit.ly/4dfbgm8

Four students in @PennSAS have been chosen for 2024 Kathryn Wasserman Davis Projects for Peace grant of $10,000 for their summer community health care project in Philadelphia addressing reproductive justice and menstrual equity. bit.ly/3UiJsWd

Surveying 7,887 registered nurses who left health care employment from 2018-2021, researchers from @PennNursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (@Penn_CHOPR) found that nurses cited poor working conditions as a major reason for leaving. bit.ly/3W0beIu

As part of a three-year residency by Rennie Harris, the artist and @PennLiveArts have partnered with the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia (@TIPatPenn) to offer hip hop dance workshops to students at two high schools in West and North Philadelphia. bit.ly/3Q1RSz1

Two third-year students in the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management, a dual-degree program administered by @Wharton and @PennSAS, have received Harry S. Truman Scholarships (@TrumanApp). bit.ly/4aViYzS

How can you work together with AI in your professional or academic lives? Join us on May 10 as Profs. @EMollick and Stefano Puntoni discuss Mollick’s new book, Co-Intelligence, and the role of AI in business leadership and education: whr.tn/3Uxopzp #AIatWharton

Maria Del Carpio has been a social worker with @PennMedicine Lancaster General Health (@LGHealth) for 15 years. A shared language and culture, as well as her own experience growing up in Peru, help Del Carpio build trust with her patients. bit.ly/4b3QPqR

A champion of web accessibility efforts at Penn, developer Leslie Vallhonrat has been working on the @upennlib web team for more than 20 years and recently spearheaded a new Accessibility Ambassadors Group at the Libraries. bit.ly/4b9I25Y

An Academically Based Community Service course at @Wharton, produced in collaboration with the @TheNetterCenter, provides students with experiential learning by helping low-income community members in Philadelphia file their taxes. bit.ly/3UuWi3X

How do we tell the story of unhoused people in the U.S.? In a @kellywritershse event, writer Jennifer Egan of @PennSAS and social scientist Dennis Culhane of @PennSP2 discuss journalism and the homelessness crisis. bit.ly/3We7jrv

For the Pennsylvania primary, Penn’s campus played host to eight polling places. Keeping the process running smoothly was a team of trained poll workers, including Penn students, staff, alumni, and neighbors. bit.ly/4dc1GQD

Avid collectors Gary and Dawn Prebula, W’72, have donated more than 75,000 comics to @upennlib. The collection, housed in the Kislak Center, contains many mass-produced books as well as a first issue of X-Men valued at $22,572. Read: bit.ly/4ddxGUz

In a guest essay for the @nytimes, R. Jisung Park of @PennSP2 says that public discourse around climate change overlooks the buildup of its hidden, gradual costs and their impact on human systems. nyti.ms/4aMlfgO

Ara Patvakanian, a @PennSAS fourth-year, came to Penn knowing he wanted to be an economist. His interest, centered in his Armenian-American heritage and his family’s experience in post-Soviet Armenia. #PennGrad Read More: bit.ly/3xP6ITa