Penn undergraduates: Spring 2024 Franklin Dinners are available. Sign up now.
Our Vision
Each month, we bring together 3 professors from vastly different fields and 5 undergraduate students to engage in an interdisciplinary conversation unlikely to happen anywhere else at Penn.
Our Goals
- Increase faculty-student engagement.
- Facilitate interdisciplinary faculty dialogue.
- Explore and discuss ideas that cut across boundaries imposed by departments, academic buildings, majors, and programs.
Administered by NSO Office and SNF Paideia Program
Franklin Dinners are jointly administered by Office of New Student Orientation & Academic Initiatives and SNF Paideia Program.
The Namesake, Benjamin Franklin
Our initiative embodies the spirit of Ben Franklin, who founded Penn and was a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. We believe that the hallmark of a successful Penn education should be the ability to integrate knowledge from different disciplines. Franklin Dinners bears his name and was created to advance the goals of a successful Penn education.
