College-Sponsored Family Weekend Events
Celebrate with the #CollegeFamily!
Thank you for your interest in this year's Family Weekend events hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences. More information and registration for Family Weekend 2025 College of Arts and Sciences' events is available below!
Schedule of Events
LIGHT BREAKFAST
9:30am — 10:00am
Reading Room, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St
WELCOME REMARKS AND PANEL DISCUSSION
10:00am — 10:45am
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St
Dean of the College Peter Struck will welcome families to the College of Arts & Sciences and host a conversation with staff and students about the value and impact of a liberal arts education.
YOU'RE MAJORING IN WHAT?!
11:00am — 11:45am
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St
A broad foundation in the arts and sciences prepares students best for the wide-ranging career challenges they'll face after Penn. Come hear successful College alumni discuss the impact of their choice of majors on their diverse career paths in this conversation moderated by Career Services.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH POSTERS, SNACKS, AND ADVISOR CHATS
12:00pm — 12:45pm
Hall of Flags, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St
Join the dean and staff of the College for an opportunity to chat with students about their research. Also, come meet the College Advising Team for group conversations and learn how the College supports your students' educational goals and helps connect them to campus resources.
Undergraduate Research Presenters and Posters
- Chelsea Abramowitz, Darien Lu - Space-Filling Geometry and the Work of Robinson Fredenthal
- Sara Adler - Perseverative Thinking Predicts Perceptions of Interpersonal Reward and Closeness in Everyday Social Interactions
- Marin Agris- MLS/Biochemistry recommendation; Research title not supplied
- Pedro Aguilar - Microfinance Exposure and Social Network Change: Village-Level and Dyadic Evidence from Karnataka
- Isabel Alvarado Maciel - History and Outcomes of a Maternal-Child Health Program: Socioeconomic Factors, Clinical Health, and Postpartum Experiences Among Maya Indigenous Women in Santiago Atitlán,Guatemala
- Sara Michele Alvarado Rodríguez- What Did You Eat? Studying Galaxy Formation through the Milky Way’s Accretion History
- Angel Ayala - Engineering Removable Glass-Bottom PDMS Devices for Modular Cell Culture
- Angelyn Campillo - MLS/Biochemistry recommendation; Research title not supplied
- Kaya Denhardt - Alpha tACS Induces Immediate OscillatoryEntrainment and Reduces Semantic Competitionin Language Production Co-presenter(s): Denise Harvey, Sahana Kapoor, Chinechelum Anwunah
- Marie Dillard - Law as Archive: Interracial Kinship, Property, and Black Family Life in Postbellum Rappahannock County, Virginia
- Nicholas Godwin - MLS/Biochemistry recommendation; Research title not supplied
Jessica Katz - How Do Area-Based Measures of
Socioeconomic Status (SES) Influence
Government Understanding of Population Health?- Alejandro Mosquera García - Against the Shadow of Coercion: Exposure, Anticipation, and the Limits of Political Align
- Adell Murray - Relations Between Unprompted and Prompted Math Talk and Mathematical Skills in Early Childhood
- Olayinka Osinowo - SLFN11 Depletion Can Control SARS-CoV-2 Infection
- Jasmin Palacios - Mapping out Dark Matter using Diffusion Posterior Sampling
- Liam Tan - Faith Across Borders: Christianity in East Asia and Its Pilgrimage to Asian American
Communities - Victoria Viera - External Validity and Video-based Conjoints: A Study of Candidate Choice
- Grace Zhao - Automating Brown-headed Cowbird Identification and Multi-Camera 3D Tracking in a Smart Aviary
COMMUNICATING WITH CONFIDENCE
1:00pm — 2:00pm
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St
The ability to express oneself clearly and effectively is essential to success in any field and is a hallmark of civic engagement. In the College, the Communication Within the Curriculum (CWiC) program provides undergraduate advisors who conduct one-on-one coaching sessions and workshops with students. During this session, advisors will provide a sample of a CWiC workshop. CWiC is a Weigle Information Commons Program Partner. See more about CWiC.