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A small wide-eyed Shi Tzu holds large boxing gloves in its mouth.

A Penn Vet tale: Olive, the tiny little fighter

When Olive, the four-month-old Shih Tzu mix, became critically ill with respiratory distress, clinicians at Penn Vet’s Ryan Hospital spent a week collaborating on intensive treatment.

art of people walking across a brown expanse carrying suitcases and bundles

Undergraduate research projects look at migration from multiple angles

The Wolf Undergraduate Humanities forum takes on the topic of migration, with individual research projects ranging from slavery debates within the Jewish Orthodox community to Southeast Asian refugee youth.

James Diaz composes ‘works of stark, haunting elegance’

The Ph.D. student studying composition in the Department of Music has already won multiple international and national awards.

African American person sitting outside on a college campus with books and a backpack.

Indicators report shows escalating disparities for students of color and poor students

Report from The Pell Institute and PennAHEAD highlights stark differences in debt burden and benefits of higher education among ethnic groups that has significantly widened in recent years.

Members of the women's rowing team, wearing their white Penn jerseys, carry their boat into the water.

Women’s rowing team revs up for first NCAA tourney

This weekend in Sarasota, Florida, the Quakers will compete in the NCAA Division I Rowing Championship tournament for the first time as a full team.

From left, Sam Strickberger, Max Strickberger, Seungkwon Son, and Niko Simpkins of College Green Ventures.

A one-stop shop for student-founded impact startups

College Green Ventures, a recipient of Penn’s 2022 President’s Engagement Prize, finds and supports student-founded impact startups. The organization aims to be a national hub for social impact on college campuses.

A crowd of people on College Green at Penn’s gun violence vigil.

A vigil in response to recent losses to gun violence

In the shadow of the LOVE sculpture, campus ministers and artists offered prayers, readings, and songs, supporting the community and imploring action in the wake of the lives lost in the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, in Laguna Woods, California, and in Uvalde, Texas.

Young child looking out a window onto a city street.

Dan Treglia on the caregivers lost to COVID

The associate professor of practice in the School of Arts & Sciences identifies the number of children who have lost parents and caregivers to COVID-19 and how to support them.

African American person at a renal clinic with a blanket on their lap and an IV in their hand.

Exploring racism’s health impact in a VA renal clinic

A new study by Penn LDI’s Kevin Jenkins provides new insights into how structural racism impacts Black patients’ lives and treatment experience for chronic kidney disease.

Rebecca Mendelson poses outside the library in front of green bushes

From Buddhist temples to Penn Libraries

Rebecca Mendelson is wrapping up her first academic year in person in her new role managing the Libraries’ Japanese and Korean Collections.

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