Resources

Most Popular Websites

• EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS
• Calendar - University 3-year
• Calendar - Graduation Deadlines
• Graduate Arts & Sciences / Office of Associate Dean for Graduate Studies (GAS)
• Graduate Student's Center (GSC)
• Penn-in-Touch
• Penn Portal
• U@Penn

Penn 

• Sociology
• Graduate Group in Demography (GGD)
• Populations Studies Center (PSC)
• Economics
• Department of Africana Studies
• Latin American and Latino Studies Program
• Department of Criminology
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Funding

• ASA Grants and Fellowships
• Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
• CURF
• Fontaine Society
• Ford Foundation
• Fulbright
• Career Services Funding Resources
• Grants.Gov
• H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online
• Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
• NIH
• NIH F31
• National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
• NSF
• Inter-American Foundation (IAF)
• Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellows
• Social Science Council (SSRC)

• Vice Provost for Research funding
• Andrea Mitchell Center Graduate Fellowships
• VPUL funding for graduate students and postdoctoral fellowship
• Ruth Landes Fellowship
• Hayek Fund for Scholars
• Foreign Language Study
  • Blakemore Foundation
  • Boren Fellowship
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
• Dissertation Completion Fellowships
  • AAUW Dissertation Fellowship
  • CCKF Fellowship
  • Hewlett Foundation/IIE Dissertation Fellowship
  • Mellow/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
  • The Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship
  • Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship
  • Josephine de Karman Dissertation Fellowship
  • Urban Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship
  • Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
•  Travel
  • GAPSA
  • SASgov
  • SAS Travel Subvention

Policies

• Academic
  • Academic Rules - Provost
  • Academic Rules for PHDs
  • Doctorial Dissertation Manual
  • Graduate Student Handbooks
  • Graduate Supervision
  • Handbook for Students: Ethics and Original Research
  • PennBook
  • Procedures Regarding Misconduct in Research
  • Responsible Conduct of Research
• Family Policies
  • Family Policies for Ph.D. Students
• Human Subjects
  • Office of Regulatory Affairs (IRB) (HS-ERA)
  • Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (Belmont Report)
  • HSERA Reference Guide
  • Human Subject Research in the Sociobehavioral Sciences
  • IRB-Reliance Agreements
• Research
  • Author Rights - Using SPARC Author Addendum
  • Fairness of Authorship Credit in Collaborative Faculty-Student Publications for PhD Students 

Research

• Campus Copy
• Demography Library Catalog
• Google Books
• Google Scholar
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NIH grant writing tips
  • NIH guide to funding opportunities
  • NIH Manuscript Submission System
  • NIH Public Access Policy
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • NSF funding opportunities
  • NSF grant writing tips
• Penn ERA Electronic Research Administration
• Penn Library System 
  • E-Resources
  • InterLibrary Loan
  • Software & Other Workshops
  • Weigle Information Commons Tutorials & Handouts
• PSC Resources
• WorldCat
• Citation Management
  • BibTeX
  • EndNote
  • Mendeley
  • RefWorks
• Journals
  • American Sociological Association
  • American Sociological Review

• Research Databases
  • ABI/INFORM Global
  • EBSCO MegaFile
  • Pub Med
  • JSTOR
  • Science Direct
  • Scopus
  • Web of Knowledge

Matriculating at Penn

• Pennkey
• PennCard
• Email
• PennGlobal
• Campus Express 
• Student Health Service - immunization & insurance
• Housing: On-Campus Penn Residential Services
• Housing: Office of Off-Campus Services
• New Student Orientation for Grad Students
• New Student Orientation for Undergrads (has many events that grad students may find useful)

Getting to Know Philly

• The Philadelphia Weekly
• Penn Transit Services
• Map of Center City, University City, and Historic District (Interactive)
• Greater Philadelphia (Interactive from MapQuest)
• PhiladelphiaLiving.com
• Philly.com
• Philadelphia Vacation and Travel Planning Guide
• Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau

University Resources

• Career Services
• Center for Teaching and Learning
• Concur / Penn Travel & Expense Management
• Counseling and Psychological Service for Students (CAPS)
• Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA)
• Interactive Campus Map
• Knowledge Link
• Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA)
• Office of Research Services (ORS)
• Penn Canvas
• Penn Bookstore
• Penn Book Center
• Penn Directory
• Penn Library Course Reserve (for main library)
• Penn Recreation
• Poster Printing @ Weigle Information Commons
• Public Safety
  • PennReady
• Remote Access (for Faculty & Staff)
• School of Arts and Science (SAS)
• SAS Writing Programs
• Student Intervention Service
• Student Registration & Financial Services
• VPUL Equity & Access Programs
• Weingarten Learning Resource Center
• Computing 
  • Computer Connection
  • Social Science Computing
• Financial
  • McNeil Business Office 
• Travel 
  • Global Registry
  • Office of International Programs
  • Penn Global
  • Penn-International SOS
  • Travel & Expense System (T&E)

Jobs

• ASA Employment Webpage
• Career Services Job & Internship
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Idealist (nonprofits)
• Inside Higher Ed
• Sociology Job Market Forum
• US Jobs (government jobs)

Professional Organizations

• American Sociological Association (ASA)
• Eastern Sociological Society (ESS)
• American Sociological Review (ASR)
• Association of Black Sociologists (ABS)
• Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR)
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC)