High School

How Novel: Penn LPS Teacher Writes for Tweens, Teens and Young Adults

April 5, 2012 by News in High School, Bachelor of Arts, Features, People, Program News

“Perfect features, the right shoes, luminescent lip gloss and the instincts of barracudas” is how Melissa Jensen describes a group of high school freshmen in The Fine Art of Truth or Dare, her most recent novel.

Physics Can Blow Your Mind!

July 15, 2011 by Margaret Sanborn in Experimental Physics, Experimental Physics Academy, High School, Penn Summer High School, Program News, Penn Summer

Penn’s College of Liberal and Professional Studies isn’t just for adult students.  Each summer, high school students from around the U.S.—and from around the world—get their first taste of college life in the Summer High School programs administered by LPS. Whether they enroll in the non-credit four-week academies in Biomedical Research, Experimental Physics Research, English Language, or Archaeology, or take courses for college credit in the Pre-College Program, they im