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Netter Center celebrates collaboration in West Philadelphia
Community Partnership Festival offered activities and honored the service of Penn students, staff, and partners working in local schools.
SHOP PENN showcases University’s diverse retail offerings
On SHOP PENN Day on Friday, March 23, the University will highlight its new focus on its retail district.
An artistic collaboration with Penn and local students in West Philly
Students from University-assisted community schools showcased art pieces, spoken-word poetry, choir performances, and a dance routine highlighting the work of iconic musicians.
Grave Gardeners program reconnects the Woodlands and Penn
The Woodlands Grave Gardeners program, now in its third season, pairs volunteer gardeners with the park’s cradle graves—tombstones with a bathtub-like extension—to plant them with lush flowers, as the makers had intended.
Penn takes on Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic
The University is leveraging its expertise to fight the city’s opioid crisis on multiple fronts.
Mentorship program introduces students of color to their Ivy League contemporaries
The HERstory/HIStory mentors from Penn’s W. E. B. Du Bois College House offer advice, wisdom, and friendship to local second-, third-, and fourth-graders.
Skills initiative gives unemployed West Philadelphians job training
Founded in 2011, the University City District’s West Philadelphia Skills Initiative connects employers seeking talent to unemployed West Philadelphia residents looking for work.
Penn’s Economic Impact on Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Tops $14 Billion
As Philadelphia’s largest private employer, Penn has a profound impact on the local and state economy.
On the ice with Flyers legends and fresh young hopefuls
An Alumni Charity Game at the Class of 1923 Arena celebrated a $7 million gift from Snider Youth Hockey Foundation and Flyers Alumni with a friendly hockey game among the Snider team and former Flyers.
What every first-year needs to know: Student tour guides offer tips, advice
A half-dozen student tour guides share a few things they wish they’d known as they started at Penn.
In the News
Here’s what these youth advocates have to say about Philly’s truancy problem, and how they would fix it
The Netter Center for Community Partnerships has more than 30 years of investment in connecting resources that address truancy, such as establishing after-school programming.
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Event recognizes legacy of Judge A. Leon Higginbotham
A West Philadelphia mural has been dedicated to the late Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, formerly of Penn Carey Law, with a quote from Osagie Imasogie.
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Education power players—Lauren Overton, Principal, Penn Alexander School
In a video interview, Lauren Overton, principal of the Penn Alexander School and a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education, discusses how she and her staff at PAS have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The West Philly housing crisis that was utterly avoidable
An in-depth examination looks at the solution that might have put a stop to the UC Townhomes housing crisis, with a glimpse at what President Liz Magill and her office are doing to help.
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Penn to build new Stuart Weitzman performing arts center in the heart of campus
Christopher Gruits of Penn Live Arts says that the new Stuart Weitzman Theatre will give artists more flexibility and completely transform the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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University City is running out of real estate for life sciences development. The answer? Densification
At a Philadelphia Business Journal event, Senior Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli discussed the lack of available land in Philadelphia for life sciences development and the need for densification.
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