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When Ryan O’Keefe got the OK to create a podcast under the student group Penn HealthX, he ran with it.
It was in New Haven, Conn., in the 1990s when Rogers Smith first heard about the Teachers Institute, a program that enrolls K-12 public school teachers in semester-long seminars led by university faculty. A professor at Yale at the time, Smith, quite frankly, was skeptical.
We all care about nutrition; it’s impossible not to. The food we consume determines our health—our immunity, susceptibility to disease, physical and mental development, and productivity.
Three years ago, just as the Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) was getting off the ground, its leaders applied for and won a National Science Foundation I-Corps grant to launch a startup accelerator at Penn.
Recent reports from the United Nations note an unprecedented 65.6 million people around the world currently displaced from their homes. Often fleeing conflict, religious persecution, and extreme poverty, among them are nearly 22.5 million refugees—half of whom are under the age of 18.
Taking action to reduce greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, is a must to mitigate climate change. And the importance of doing it on a local level is more important now than ever before.
In the early 1950s, Penn had already been years into discussions about a “much-needed campus for women students,” wrote R. Damon Childs for the Pennsylvania Triangle, a student publication, then of the University’s engineering and fine arts schools.