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High school meets business with Bridges 2 Wealth
Costumed student feeds cloth through a sewing machine as five others look on

Kayden Perren (foreground) feeds cloth through a donated sewing machine as India Watson (far right) teaches him how to construct a pocket. Image taken in February. 

High school meets business with Bridges 2 Wealth

Bridges 2 Wealth, a financial literacy program that celebrated its one-year anniversary with the Netter Center in February, collaborates with Penn students and Philadelphia schools to close the wealth gap.

Kristina García

Celebrate the arts, history, and nature from home
Triptych of a still from an art museum showing a contributor to their online content, a spring blossom and a collection of historical objects from the Penn Museum available for exploring virtually online.

Celebrate the arts, history, and nature from home

While Penn’s arts and culture centers remain closed, they are still finding ways to sustain connections through online collections and programs.

From The Power of Penn

Anne Berg explores the ‘Wastes of War’
People wearing latex gloves crouch on the floor around a pile of garbage

Historian Anne Berg, center, sorts trash with students in her “Wastes of War” seminar. (Image: Eric Sucar)

Anne Berg explores the ‘Wastes of War’

What qualifies as a war, and how does the waste created by war transform the social and physical environment? Historian Anne Berg’s class looks at these two seemingly disconnected concepts.

Kristen de Groot

Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. (Image: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH)

Coming together to solve the many scientific mysteries of COVID-19

Putting some of their regular research projects on the back burner, researchers around Penn are digging into unknowns about the novel coronavirus from their deep and varied perspectives.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Engaging with the climate crisis, online
A hand holds a pen in front of an iceberg in the ocean

Work by Amy Balkin, artist-in-residence for the PPEH this year, is a part of the Making Sense gallery. (Image: Amy Balkin)

Engaging with the climate crisis, online

Across a quartet of digital platforms, including one for this week’s Climate Sensing and Data Storytelling convening, the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities is encouraging public engagement and the pairing of environmental art and science on climate issues.

Katherine Unger Baillie

How tweets may influence substance abuse in youth
A teenager looks critically at a smartphone in their hand

How tweets may influence substance abuse in youth

While social media provides youth the opportunity to discuss and display substance use-related beliefs and behaviors, little is known about how posting or viewing drug-related content influences the beliefs and behaviors of youth relative to substance use.

From Penn Nursing News

Inside the pandemic’s most deadly targets: Nursing homes
Empty hallway in a nursing home with an electric wheelchair and a walker by a sunlit door

Inside the pandemic’s most deadly targets: Nursing homes

The fourth in an ongoing series of LDI “Experts at Home” virtual seminars focused on how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the cracks in how we fund and staff nursing home care.

Hoag Levins

The sociology of disease and disgust
A woman wearing a red cross and a mask over her face illustrates an announcement that says, "To Prevent Influenza!"

A public health announcement taken from a 1918 issue of Illustrated Current News is part of the Mütter Museum’s “Spit Spreads Death” exhibition. (Image: U.S. National Library of Medicine.)

The sociology of disease and disgust

Ramah McKay and David Barnes discuss the historical association of disease, shame, and social stigma.

Kristina García

AJ Brodeur’s substance over style
Forward AJ Brodeur of the men's basketball team lays the ball in the basket between two defenders at the Palestra.

AJ Brodeur’s substance over style

Without any flashiness, AJ Brodeur leaves his mark as an all-time Penn basketball great.

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