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NSO 2007 > Life at Penn > Hubs & Communities

Penn students seek the University's many hubs as a way of bonding with a community of people with shared interests. Whether you wish to associate along the lines of interests, activities, gender, race, religion, or ethnicity, hubs within Penn's community foster these bonds throughout campus.

Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowship (CURF)
La Casa Latina
Makuu: Black Student Cultural Center
Navy ROTC
Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH)
Penn Humanities Forum
Weiss Tech House

Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF)
ARCH Building
3601 Locust Walk
Philadlephia, PA 19104
www.upenn.edu/curf/

The Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) provides information, advice, resources, and support for Penn students seeking to become involved in faculty research, to initiate research projects of their own, or to fund graduate study at home or abroad.

La Casa Latina
Suite 123, ARCH Building
3601 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6224
215.746.6043
lacasa@pobox.upenn.edu
www.vpul.upenn.edu/lacasa/index.html

La Casa Latina is a Center devoted to developing greater awareness of Latino issues, culture and identity on Penn’s campus. La Casa Latina provides a supportive environment where students are welcome to discuss and understand issues of importance to them. The Center supports students through resources and services that foster the integration of their academic, social, cultural, and community service activities to enrich their Penn experience. La Casa Latina strives to be a Center where all Latinos and non-Latinos can participate and learn from each other in order to enrich the intercultural experience of the Penn Community.

Navy ROTC
Hollenback Center
3000 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.898.7436
www.vpul.upenn.edu/nrotc/index.html

Navy ROTC aims to develop midshipmen morally, mentally and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in order to commission college graduates as officers. Students must possess a basic professional background, be motivated towards a career in the Naval Service and have a potential for future development in mind and character so as to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.

Makuu houses a wide range of resources for students and organizations, and provides limited financial support for student events and programs. A defining element of Makuu is collaboration. Whether it is between organizations, offices, and/or people, we endeavor to build programs and an environment that emphasizes and supports collaboration and consensus.

Makuu invites you to The ARCH to hold meetings, discussions, brainstorming sessions, or just to gather. If you have any questions or ideas, Makuu encourages you to stop by, call, or email.

Pan-Asian American Community House
3601 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6224
215.746.6046
paach@dolphin.upenn.edu
www.vpul.upenn.edu/paach/Home/

The Pan-Asian American Community House (PAACH) is the University of Pennsylvania's central resource for advising students and student organizations with a particular focus on students of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage. As a center with an educational mission, PAACH works with its academic partner, Penn's Asian American Studies Program (ASAM), to provide co-curricular events focusing on Asian American research, culture, history, politics and social issues. As a community center, PAACH develops and implements innovative programs for leadership development and community service in close collaboration with student and community groups. In addition to advocacy for students, PAACH also strives to provide support for Asian American and Pacific Islander alumni, staff, and faculty. The center is open to all members of the University of Pennsylvania and the surrounding community who have an interest in issues relevant to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Drop by PAACH to browse through the library of ASAM books and videos, learn about leadership initiatives, and chat with the staff about upcoming talks and programs.

Penn Humanities Forum
3619 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213
215.898.8220
humanities@sas.upenn.edu
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/index.shtml

The Forum's mission is to use humanistic knowledge and expertise to promote an ongoing cultural conversation involving the range of university disciplines and the general public. The Forum provokes its diverse participants to discover common ground through the selection of a yearly theme. Human Nature was the inaugural topic in 1999-2000, enlisting evolutionary biologists, medical ethicists, literary and music scholars, artists, gender theorists, and human rights experts. In this and subsequent themes we have considered how the humanities are linked with many areas of inquiry in medicine, law, business, and the social sciences. Each topic is explored in a rich program of public lectures, performances, and exhibitions, as well as research through the Forum's academic think tank, and student activities through our Undergraduate Humanities Forum and Graduate Humanities Forum.

Weiss Tech House
Room 266 Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 573-0513
info@tech-house.upenn.edu
www.tech-house.upenn.edu/index.htm

The Weiss Tech House encourages and supports students in the creation, development, and/or commercialization of innovative technologies. The technological domains of interest are broad, including, but not limited to, information, energy, materials, manufacturing, communication, entertainment, medicine, and transportation. The primary constituency of the Tech House is undergraduate students interested in technological innovation. However, the Tech House is inclusive, and seeks involvement from graduate students, faculty, staff, and members of the outside business and technical community.