Welcome - Dr. Amy Gutmann, Penn President

Welcome to Penn’s home on the web. Here, you can visit our schools and research centers and begin to discover what makes this University such a powerful and exciting force in higher education.

What drew me to Penn—and makes me so pleased to be the University’s president—is its great energy and spirit, qualities I associate with its founder, Benjamin Franklin. Penn’s excellence is electric. I hope you will get a sense of that as you take an online tour of our beautiful campus, get to know some of our superb faculty and find out more about the breadth and depth of a Penn education and the vital importance of the cutting edge research that is happening here every day.

Here on my web site, you can learn about the history of the presidency and meet some of the senior members of the University administration. You can also find out about my own research and teaching and learn about my plans for making Penn ever more excellent by building upon the work of my predecessors.

Enjoy your virtual visit, and I hope we can welcome you to the campus in person one day soon.

Amy Gutmann
President
University of Pennsylvania