The University of Pennsylvania is celebrating 100 years of Career Services, an office that has guided students and alumni through a changing world of work while staying focused on a single mission: helping people connect what they learn at Penn with who they want to become.
"Education creates opportunity," said President J. Larry Jameson. "Career Services has played a vital role in helping generations of Penn students and alumni realize that promise."
According to Penn Today, the office has evolved alongside the workforce over the past century, adapting its approach as the nature of work has shifted while keeping its core purpose intact.
The anniversary is one of several items featured in Penn Today's Oct. 1 newsletter, which also highlights research and teaching across the university.
In health and medicine, Penn Vet's Matthew Atherton is developing cutting-edge immune therapies to treat blood cancer in canines by using a cancer patient's own T cells. "Our clinical veterinary trials will shed new light on how best to optimize immune therapies across species barriers, thus also benefiting people diagnosed with aggressive cancers," he said.
In the Weitzman School's newest Master of Design program, students are using artificial intelligence to integrate financial planning and zoning regulations into the design process. "AI allows us to use real 2D and 3D data to better design each site for what real estate people call 'highest and best use,'" said architect Richard Garber, who led the program's summer studio.
Elsewhere, education professor A. Brooks Bowden has contributed to a new national effort aimed at helping academic leaders interpret and apply research evidence in their decision-making.
The newsletter also notes that the 2026 Penn Employee Resource Fair will be held Oct. 1, bringing together staff, campus partners and community organizations, with shredding services available outside the David Pottruck Health and Fitness Center.