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About the Cora Ingrum Center

The Cora Ingrum Center for Community and Outreach leads and champions programming to support the Penn Engineering student body and positively impact the Philadelphia community. Through educational outreach and expanded opportunities for all students, the Center is the cornerstone of Penn Engineering’s activities that foster meaningful connections within the School and beyond.

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Reflection room

Penn Engineering Reflection Room

Penn Engineering students are encouraged to take advantage of the recently established Reflection Room for prayer and meditation located in Hayden Hall.

Hayden Hall | Room 120C | The door to the Reflection Room is usually unlocked

Available 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday

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Community Stories

Celebrating Penn Engineers

Celebrating Penn Engineers

Penn is home to a wide-ranging, ever-changing community.

Clark Foundation Invests $11 Million In New Generation

Clark Foundation Invests $11 Million In New Generation

The Clark Foundation deepens the program’s mission, opening new pathways for students to grow as engineers and community leaders.

Coding with Kids

Coding with Kids

The Fife-Penn CS Academy empowers Philadelphia middle school students through after-school coding clubs led by Penn Engineering students

Henry Coshburn and the Power of Mentorship

Henry Coshburn and the Power of Mentorship

One of the first Black graduates of Penn’s chemical engineering program, Henry Coshburn spent decades mentoring Black engineers.

Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton

Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton

Sharing a legacy of leadership and decades of service, Donna Hampton and Cora Ingrum had a transformative impact on Penn Engineering

Introducing the Glassman Penn Scholars Program

Introducing the Glassman Penn Scholars Program

The Michael and Jennifer Ternoey Glassman Penn Scholars (GPS) program is a pre-college initiative for academically gifted rising high-school seniors interested in STEM.

Launching a Future in Space Science

Launching a Future in Space Science

Electrical Engineering student Amehja Williams transformed her dream of Arctic research into reality through NASA’s Eclipse Ambassador Program.

Penn Engineering Foundations

Penn Engineering Foundations

Today, Penn Engineering celebrates the achievements of the past while working toward a community that reflects – and will help lead – our world.

Penn Engineering hosts six Heights Philadelphia students for seven-week internships

Heights Philadelphia students intern at Penn

Last summer, Penn Engineering hosted six Heights Philadelphia students for seven-week research internships labs alongside professional researchers.

Rivers in a Changing World

Rivers in a Changing World

A new Academically Based Community Service class brings Penn and William L. Sayre High School students together to learn environmental science and engineering.

Summer STEM at Penn Engineering

Summer STEM at Penn Engineering

Tamara Brockington, a student at Abington Friends School, joined the Electronic Photonic Microsystems Lab last summer as part of Penn Engineering’s Army Education Outreach Program (AEOP).

Supporting the Next Generation of Engineers

Supporting the Next Generation of Engineers

With roots stretching back to the 1970s, the CIC aims to introduce Philadelphia students to the kind of science happening within Penn Engineering.

“The University of Pennsylvania has a beautiful campus in the middle of the City of Philadelphia. We embrace our connections with the city and with our community, and we are committed to a plan of having a student body representative of our surrounding population.”

— Dr. Vijay Kumar, Dean of Penn Engineering

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