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Writing with purpose

Students in Lorene Cary’s creative writing course focus on voting, midterm elections, and exploring the big questions of their generation.
students sitting at a table in Lorene Cary's safekids writing class
The nine students in English professor Lorene Cary’s creative writing class “Essay, Blog, Tweet, Nonfiction now!” work collaboratively on projects focused on getting young people to register to vote and to the polls in the midterm elections.

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    Three people test water below a sand dam.

    Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.

    (Image: Courtesy of Griffin Pitt)

    A world shaped by water and access

    Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.

    Oct 8, 2025