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Penn-led nonprofit helps students with career advancement
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    • Penn-led nonprofit helps students with career advancement

    A Wharton senior talks to Penn Today about how a nonprofit virtual platform, HowToStudent, is dedicated to helping students advance in their education and career regardless of their economic background.

    Dee Patel

    Three historians on the future of history
    Patchwork quilt in assembly.

    Image: Vanessa Lovegrove/OMNIA

    Three historians on the future of history

    David Young Kim, Sophia Rosenfeld, and Heather Andrea Williams share their thoughts on how history affects our lives, and what it means to rewrite history.

    Susan Ahlborn

    Math education and engagement in West Philadelphia
    two people looking at a student who is pointing at a math equation on a white board

    This fall, students in Math 123, one of Penn’s Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, applied the skills they learned about math education and communication while working with tenth graders in West Philadelphia.

    Math education and engagement in West Philadelphia

    This fall, students in Math 123 applied the skills they learned about math education and communication while working with 10th graders at Paul Robeson High School.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Making time off a time for side gigs for good
    mary berger

    Making time off a time for side gigs for good

    Penn Today profiles four faculty and staff members who use their time and talents to help others.

    Michele W. Berger , Katherine Unger Baillie

    From foundational discoveries to profound impact
    weissman and kariko in the lab Today, Weissman and colleagues are working to develop a pan-coronavirus vaccine capable of protecting the population against SARS, MERS, SARS-CoV-2, and more. At BioNTech, Karikó is overseeing parallel but distinct research on a range of diseases in which patients receive mRNA encoding therapeutic proteins. (Image: Peggy Peterson)

    From foundational discoveries to profound impact

    How decades of mRNA research at Penn made powerful new COVID-19 vaccines possible—and opened a new vista for future discoveries.

    Ashley Rabinovitch

    Millions embrace COVID-19 misinformation, which is linked to vaccine hesitancy
    healthcare professional with syringe and vaccine

    Millions embrace COVID-19 misinformation, which is linked to vaccine hesitancy

    Millions continue to believe misinformation about vaccination and COVID-19, and these beliefs are associated with hesitancy to get themselves and their children vaccinated—or, if they are vaccinated, to get a booster for added protection.

    From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

    The COVID landscape after a year with vaccines
    Vials labeled "SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Vaccine" lit up with neon light on a machine filling them.

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    The COVID landscape after a year with vaccines

    In a conversation hosted by LDI, experts from Penn, the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations discussed the vaccine rollout, boosters, misinformation, and more.

    Michele W. Berger

    In Peru and the U.S., considering the factors that drive public health
    Michael Levy

    Michael Z. Levy, whose own research uses interdisciplinary methods to shed light on epidemiology and public health, taught the course with colleague César Ugarte-Gil and featured a bevy of guest experts. (Image: Peggy Peterson)

    In Peru and the U.S., considering the factors that drive public health

    By comparing and contrasting the two nations’ approaches to controlling infectious diseases, students in Parallel Plagues deepened their appreciation of how these diseases emerge, cause harm, and might be effectively controlled.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Preparing, and paying for, climate change-induced disasters
    Aftermath of severe storm on a neighborhood with damaged houses and strewn debris.

    In the aftermath of natural disasters, cleanup and recovery costs can soar. With climate change fueling more severe weather events, the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center is innovating new strategies for building resilience and helping victims bounce back. 

    Preparing, and paying for, climate change-induced disasters

    In the wake of a series of unusual and devastating December tornadoes, Carolyn Kousky of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center tells Penn Today about strategies for resilience and recovery.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Fighting food insecurity
    Four women in front of the Share food bank, and the two in the middle are waving to each other

    Laura Guerrero Peña (second from left), a senior studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Queens, New York, worked at Share Food Program over the fall semester.

    Fighting food insecurity

    Students from the Fox Leadership Program have lent their time and expertise to hunger organizations for more than a decade, and during the pandemic they’ve upped their involvement to meet the growing need.

    Kristen de Groot