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BFS Faculty and Students Welcome Alumni to Campus During Homecoming Weekend

November 15, 2018

BFS alumni returned to campus to celebrate Penn and chat with current BFS students and faculty over Federal Donuts and coffee during Alumni Homecoming weekend. Alumni from NYC, Philly, and D.C. stopped by to reconnect with the BFS program and learn about current program offerings and recent events.

Meet Adam Cohen (COL '16), Truman Scholar

November 14, 2018

Truman Scholar Adam Cohen walks us through his experience applying to and receiving the Truman Scholarship, what he learned, and why he'd put himself through that process again.

Danielle Bassett's BFS Masterclass Provides Maps of How Our Brains Learn

November 8, 2018

In the November BFS Masterclass, Dr. Bassett, a physicist and systems neuroscientist, MacArthur Fellowship winner, and TED Talk alum, shared her work on brain flexibility and the application of network science to the study of learning in the human brain.

BFSers View Local Raptor Visitors at Hawk Mountain!

November 8, 2018

Meet Anea Moore (COL '19), Truman Scholar

October 31, 2018

Anea sits down with us in the Fireside Lounge to discuss her ambitions of creating education reform in her home city of Philadelphia and what advice she has for other first-generation low-income students considering applying for prestigious fellowships.