“I was a science kid when I was younger,” says Pre-Health Post-Baccalaureate Programs student Anneka Allman. Though she took a different path in college, majoring in visual arts, she decided to return to the sciences after graduation. “I came home to Philadelphia and started volunteering at an immunology lab at Penn,” she says. Not long after, she was hired as a full-time technician.
Penn PhD student Matthew Fagerstrom has aspired to earn his doctorate in economics since his sophomore year at Villanova University studying economics and political science. “My interest,” he says, “is the intersection of comparative political economy and monetary policy.” Penn’s Post-Baccalaureate Studies program not only offered Matthew the math courses he needed to strengthen his doctoral program application but helped him decide that Penn was his top choice for earning his postgraduate degree.
A first-generation student, Gabrielle Solair (Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences ’23) says she didn’t know much about US higher education. Neither of her parents had degrees. And though Solair had graduated high school at 16, she didn’t decide to go to college until she was 23. “Coming into education was super scary,” she says. “I had a huge gap of time where I solely focused on my music. I thought that was all I could do.”
David Steven Jacoby teaches graduate Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Global Supply Chain Decarbonization at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. He is a senior fellow at Boston University’s Institute for Global Sustainability and a former adjunct professor at Boston University’s Questrom Graduate School of Business, and a master class instructor for REVchain's Supply Chain Decarbonization program.
Amidst the economic crisis in Venezuela in the 2010s, Nicole Pérez Cueter, a student in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP), was early in her career at a multinational manufacturing company. While overseeing plant operators, Nicole witnessed how hardworking employees struggled to provide for their families during a time of nationwide instability. “That was one of the first experiences that ignited something in me that the purpose of a career was to do something for others,” she says.
This summer, several Penn graduate students recently returned from Italy after completing international coursework with a sustainability focus in the Organizational Dynamics course DYNM 7660: Global Collaboration for Sustainability—The Food-Water-Energy Nexus in Italy.
The faculty and staff of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies invite you to join us for our upcoming fall virtual information sessions and program events. Join us to learn about our undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, graduate, and certificate programs.
Meet program directors and recruitment staff to get your questions answered about curricula, advising, and how our programs can help you reach your personal and professional goals. We look forward to answering your questions and helping you get started on the application process.
John Marchese, a writer at Philadelphia Magazine, reflects on the course Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (a.k.a. “ModPo”), which is taught by Penn professor Al Filreis and offered on the digital learning platform, Coursera.
The Fels Institute of Government partnered with the impact venture fund ToVenture for the second annual B Good Pitch Competition on Friday, April 21. Open to graduate and non-degree students in disciplines other than business administration, this social entrepreneurship competition invites participants to propose sustainable solutions to real-world challenges, to connect with resources and like-minded peers, and to compete for seed grants to further develop their ideas. Students from across Penn gathered in the Fels courtyard for the 60-second pitches.
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