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| Joyce Kim |
Kim, from Allen, Texas, said that she decided to run to enhance communication between students and administrators.
"I want to make the student body a more relevant vehicle for change on campus," Kim said.
Kim, a second generation Korean-American, won 1,806 votes, 656 more than her opponent, Gabe Delaney of New York City. She has become the first female to be elected president since the university was founded in 1740.
UPenn, an American private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, is one of 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities and one of the nine original colonial colleges.
