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Mentoring tomorrow’s biomedical researchers
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Andrea Gomez at work in a laboratory as part of the Summer Undergraduate Internship Program. 

Mentoring tomorrow’s biomedical researchers

This year, 41 students took part in the Summer Undergraduate Internship Program, a 10-week residential program that aims to steer biomedicine and biological science students toward Ph.D. programs.
Mapping the ocean with marine robots
Aquatic Robots, Hsieh Lab

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Mapping the ocean with marine robots

M. Ani Hsieh’s robotics lab investigates how to use ocean currents as a natural energy source for marine robots, which would enable widespread exploration.

Jacob Williamson-Rea

West Philly students cook up on campus
Cooking with AUNI 2018

 

Fifteen-year old Maya Threndgil (far left) and fifteen-year old Shayla Fleming (far right) make bruschetta, while eighteen-year old Indera Guiton (middle) searches for ingredients for her salmon patties. Photo: Eric Sucar

West Philly students cook up on campus

The Netter Center for Community Partnerships helps high school students from West Philadelphia develop their strengths and interests through Leaders of Change, a University-Assisted Community Schools program.
Navigating urban waters, with an interdisciplinary approach
PPEH Summer Research Group

Navigating urban waters, with an interdisciplinary approach

With independent research projects and immersive experiences on and near Philadelphia’s waterways, summer fellows with the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities are collaborating to develop new ways of learning and sharing knowledge.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Netter Center provides summer academic and cultural enrichment
Netter Center enrichment camps helps prevent summer slide For six weeks, from the middle of June through early August, summer camps offered by the Netter Center serve around 400 K-8 students and close to 200 high school students.

Netter Center provides summer academic and cultural enrichment

The Netter Center for Community Partnerships offers six-week summer camps at University-Assisted Community Schools that serve hundreds of Philadelphia schoolchildren.
Penn brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world
BiblioPhilly manuscript

Penn brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world

Leveraging the University’s expertise with technology and rare centuries-old manuscripts, Penn Libraries is digitizing and cataloging medieval and early modern texts from 15 Philadelphia-area institutions. The three-year project is known as BiblioPhilly.
STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers
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As part of SMASH Wharton, rising 10th graders spend almost the entirety of their summer breaks on Penn’s campus, taking rigorous STEM and business courses.

STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers

As part of the SMASH Wharton program, 35 students live and breathe college life in the summer, staying for three years in Harnwell College House and taking classes at Huntsman Hall.

Lauren Hertzler

A gentle nudge at the right moment can curb unnecessary spending online
Tobias Nasgarde (left) and Garrett Meccariello, graduate students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences program at Penn.

Tobias Nasgarde (left) and Garrett Meccariello are graduate students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences program, part of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. They completed the research in an effort to practically use the skills they learned in their program.

A gentle nudge at the right moment can curb unnecessary spending online

It turns out, reminding people of their financial goals before they start online shopping can reduce unnecessary spending of this kind by almost 25 percent.

Michele W. Berger

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