How to improve accessibility and digital inclusion Q&A How to improve accessibility and digital inclusion Tonya Bennett discusses a recent accessibility awareness panel discussion where higher education leaders focused on physical and digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people worldwide with disabilities and impairments.
Tools for teachers: How to lead tough conversations Tools for teachers: How to lead tough conversations At DISCUSS Summer Institute, emerging teachers learn how to lead conversations about history, current events, and politics.
Learning nursing care in a different type of classroom Nursing student Aman Uppal (standing) with one of the students at the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy, where she did a clinical rotation this summer. (Image: Courtesy of HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy) Learning nursing care in a different type of classroom Penn Nursing students Aman Uppal and Michelle Tran spent the summer before their final semesters in a clinical rotation at the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy.
Penn Medicine’s 1,500th lung transplant Garcia Bolton, a lifelong Philadelphian, received Penn Medicine’s 1500th lung transplant. (Image: Penn Medicine News) Penn Medicine’s 1,500th lung transplant The milestone transplant helped give new life to Garcia Bolton, a father, truck driver, poet, and lifelong Philadelphian.
‘Music connects’ for Summer Institute students Timothy Rommen (right) teaches a class on Dominica’s popular music, one of several in this year’s Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute for Pre-Freshmen. ‘Music connects’ for Summer Institute students The Summer Institute for Pre-Freshmen brings new students together with experienced faculty and graduate students to discuss cultural themes in Africana studies.
Penn submits amicus brief to SCOTUS in affirmative action cases Image: iStock/SeanPavonePhoto Penn submits amicus brief to SCOTUS in affirmative action cases The brief, which is signed by Penn and 14 other universities, was filed in support of Harvard and the University of North Carolina in Supreme Court affirmative action cases.
A fish harvest that’s more sustainable—and tastier, too Saif Khawaja, a graduate of Wharton, is one of the winners of the inaugural Penn President’s Sustainability Prizes. A fish harvest that’s more sustainable—and tastier, too December graduate Saif Khawaja’s President’s Sustainability Prize is helping him build Shinkei Systems, a company that has developed a robotics-based system for minimizing waste in the fishing industry.
With school out, construction crews work in earnest A new room for hosting events inside the Penn Boathouse. Completion of the Boathouse renovation is one of 395 active projects on and around campus, encompassing $1.2 billion in approved total budgets and 339 construction workers on campus daily. With school out, construction crews work in earnest Campus may have depopulated for the summer, but construction workers have moved in to begin or accelerate work on projects both big and small. Here, an overview of what’s in progress on Penn’s campus—and beyond.
1 in 5 Americans fears getting monkeypox, but many know little about it 1 in 5 Americans fears getting monkeypox, but many know little about it As COVID cases surge across the United States dominated by a highly transmissible subvariant, the public has voiced concern about the new health threat of monkeypox, according to a new Annenberg Public Policy Center survey.
Fallon fillets competition, finishes first at USA Swimming National Championships Fallon fillets competition, finishes first at USA Swimming National Championships In a come-from-behind victory, the rising sophomore won the 200m breaststroke with a time of 2:07.91.