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Niko Simpkins: At the nexus of engineering and music
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Penn Engineering undergraduate Niko Simpkins. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Niko Simpkins: At the nexus of engineering and music

For Niko Simpkins, a musician who performs, produces, and engineers his own tracks, the most exciting processes combine structure and flexibility, creativity, and rigor. As a third-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, he sees his mechanical engineering education as a framework for problem solving that might serve him across a broad set of endeavors, and for now, he’s more interested in learning than narrowing to any one particular career path.

Evan Lerner

Finding beauty in everything, through a camera lens
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Finding beauty in everything, through a camera lens

Karen Reivich of Penn’s Positive Psychology Center turned to photography to reconnect to herself during the pandemic. It helped her discover a new way of seeing the world.

Michele W. Berger

Annenberg researchers use data science skills for social justice
Two incarcerated people seen from above and behind with their hands handcuffed behind their backs outside in a prison yard.

Annenberg researchers use data science skills for social justice

Data scientists at the Annenberg School for Communication are working with the Amistad Law Project to create an open access dashboard of data that can aid efforts to help the incarcerated communiy.

From Annenberg School for Communication, Ashton Yount

Behavior Change for Good unveils effective strategies to boost vaccination rates
A person standing in the front of a classroom holding a pointer, smiling. Blurry water bottles appear in the foreground.

Katy Milkman co-directs the Behavior Change for Good initiative with Penn’s Angela Duckworth. Milkman is also the James G. Dinan Endowed Professor and a professor of operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School. She has a secondary appointment in the Perelman School of Medicine. (Image: Eric Sucar)

Behavior Change for Good unveils effective strategies to boost vaccination rates

Texts with “reserved for you” messaging boosted flu vaccine rates by up to 11%.

Michele W. Berger

Ivy League cancels spring sports season
Historic Franklin Field sits empty with no players or fans.

Ivy League cancels spring sports season

Due to the pandemic, the conference will not hold league competition or host league championships this spring, but has put in place a process that may allow for limited, local competition if public health conditions improve.

Penn Today Staff

Fostering the next generation of Black philosophers at Penn
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Fostering the next generation of Black philosophers at Penn

In the past decade, the department has become a hub for race theory and a welcoming environment for a diverse group of young academics, mentored by those who have paved the way before them.

Michele W. Berger

Penn Med students create unexpected community outreach
Person standing outside holding a brown lunch bag to distribute wearing a face shield and mask outside a building in West Philadelphia

Image: Courtesy of Michael Burch

Penn Med students create unexpected community outreach

The Perelman School of Medicine’s Medical School Government used its annual funding that usually goes to events in non-pandemic times to help the West Philadelphia community.

From Penn Medicine News