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The new play “Ladysitting” at the Arden Theatre Co. is by Penn English faculty and alumna Lorene Cary, based on her memoir about caring for her grandmother in the last of her 101 years.
The Pennsylvania Broadband Research Institute, a collaboration between Penn and Penn State, looks for ways to bridge the digital divide in the state—and the rest of the nation.
At an event on Jan. 30, three winning project groups were honored for ‘choosing to help make lives better.’
The Office of the Executive Vice President launched the initiative in January, highlighting important service work across the University, the Health System, and Philadelphia.
An interfaith commemoration for 19 Black Philadelphians whose remains were part of the Morton Cranial Collection will take place at the Penn Museum.
The annual workplace giving campaign, ‘Going the Distance for Our Community,’ concluded on Nov. 24, and the numbers are in.
Penn’s MLK Day of Service featured a robust kickoff with speakers and performances, followed by volunteer initiatives on campus and in the community.
The 11th piece in this series highlights a museum educator who also teaches people through an Afrocentric storytelling group, a research coordinator volunteering with an LGBTQ+ band, a nurse collecting children’s books, and a Spanish lecturer picking up trash.
From the basics of setting up an investment account to giving a play-by-play on how interest accrues, the partnership—a Projects for Progress winner—hosts financial literacy workshops with middle and high school students around Philadelphia, as well as Penn and other college students.
For this year’s campaign, ‘Going the Distance for our Community,’ Penn and Penn Medicine are matching faculty and staff contributions dollar for dollar in support of programs that directly benefit the community.
In an Op-Ed, Vukan R. Vuchic of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that Philadelphia should make transit more accessible rather than striving to accommodate more cars.
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Penn alum Amy Jane Cohen is profiled for her new book “Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape,” which examines Black history through the lens of events, institutions, and individuals across the city. The book includes a reflection from Penn chaplain Charles Howard.
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Shoshana Aronowitz of the School of Nursing and Ashish Thakrar of the Perelman School of Medicine comment on the lack of specificity in Philadelphia’s plan to remove drug users from Kensington and on the current state of drug treatment in the city.
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Akira Drake Rodriguez, Rashida Ng, and Dominic Vitiello of the Weitzman School of Design say there should be a more robust and inclusive conversation about the future of Philadelphia’s Market Street East.
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A Penn Carey Law analysis found that Act 135 petitions in Philadelphia have disproportionately been filed against Black and Asian property owners.
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Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods says that the interment of 19 Black Philadelphians at Eden Cemetery represents a reckoning with the Museum’s colonial past and an act of reconciliation with the local community.
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