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College Houses celebrate year-end traditions

The communities in the College Houses celebrate the milestones of each school year every spring, marking the progress of their residents through the academy in many creative ways.

Making your move-out green and clean

Move-out doesn't have to mean piles of trash around campus! Penn offers several ways to recycle and reuse your unwanted items, and PennToday has the story.

Lauder Fellow builds with food waste

Lauder College House Fellow Laia Mogas-Soldevila’s team works with Penn's dining services to turn waste materials that restaurants frequently discard into sustainable building materials.

Du Bois hosts 33rd Souls of Du Bois Symposium

Du Bois College House hosted the 33rd annual Souls of Du Bois Symposium at the end of February, celebrating the enduring legacy of scholar and activist Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois.

Stouffer Faculty Director to lead Nursing global engagement

Prof. Carmen Alvarez, the Faculty Director in Stouffer College House, has been named by the School of Nursing as the Associate Dean for Global Engagement and as director of the Center for Global Women's Health.

Rodin Fellow helps demystify Bach

Rodin College House Fellow Dr. Jamuna Samuel is opening up the world of J.S. Bach to students by teaching MUSC3660: Performance, Analysis, History.

Stouffer Fellow fights swimming bacteria

Dr. Arnold Mathijssen, a College House Fellow in Stouffer College House, leads a team that has discovered ways that bacteria like E. coli can swim through tiny pathways to invade deeply into the body.

Rodin Faculty Director brings AI to political science

Prof. Daniel Gillion, Faculty Director of Rodin College House, teaches a course called "Machine Learning in Political Science, Sociology, and Economics," examining the ways that AI technologies can be applied to diverse fields in the social sciences.

Nursing students and faculty find community in the College Houses

Penn Nursing, the School of Nursing's magazine, profiles the ways in which nurses-in-training at Penn find support and camaraderie within the College Houses.

Harrison Fellow brings Italian cinema to the City of Brotherly Love

Harrison College House Fellow Nicola Gentili was interviewed by a local Italian-American cultural newspaper about his work bringing Italian cinema to the people of Philadelphia.