By: SWE Advocacy Committee SWE Advocacy had the incredible opportunity to represent our individual states at the 2026 Congressional Outreach held in Washington DC on March 18th and 19th. We spoke to the offices of Congresspeople from our states. It was an incredible way to advocate for issues important to women in engineering: such as funding for scientific research, funding for K-12 STEM education, and support for the STEM Restart Act. Check out our accounts of this super fu

By: Archisa Arora For decades, headlines have celebrated the growing number of women entering STEM, yet the corporate world tells a different story . Women may have entered the room, but the power dynamics inside it haven’t shifted nearly as much as we like to believe. In my high school’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science class, less than ⅓ of us were girls. Every individual there had fought to achieve the highest grade to guarantee placement, yet during our first

Thursday, April 9th, 2026 was a gorgeous sunny day- perfect for uniting against sexual violence and abuse at the annual Take Back the Night rally and march. The Abuse and Sexual Assault Prevention organization at Penn organizes the Take Back the Night rally and march every spring, continuing a tradition that began in Philadelphia in the 1970s after large amounts of violence, and expanded across the world. TBTN 2026 began with a resource fair to learn about resources for anyon

A DITL of a Materials Science & Engineering + Physics major Feb 24, 2026 By: Ellen Hu Intro: Hi there! I’m Ellen, a current sophomore studying in Materials Science & Engineering and Physics in the VIPER program . Here’s a brief Monday in my life @ Penn studying, practicing, and eating :) 7:45am. wake up + get ready. Look at the penguin! my friend got it for me during the 2024 Paris Olympics - hence, his name is Paris. Not sure why the lighting is so dark in this photo - I p