Jill DiSanto

When Micaela Wensjoe headed to Kenya for the summer, she was focused on what she had to learn as part of an internship. But now that she is there, she has also developed an interest in helping orphans.  Wensjoe, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, is blogging about all of it. 

Ever since she was a 6-year-old living in the Philippines, University of Pennsylvania student Mary Encabo knew that she wanted to be a teacher.  While she had a strong sense that she had to teach the world something, she didn’t know exactly what that something was at the time. 

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At the University of Pennsylvania, Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher is a matchmaker of sorts.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Volunteers in Public Service scholarship program awarded supplemental scholarships to five local high school students at a ceremony Tuesday, June 9.  

WHAT:          The University of Pennsylvania will provide non-tuition scholarships to five students from five local high schools in recognition of their history of community service.

The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania will host a June 10-12 conference addressing some of today's critical issues such as child trafficking and underrepresented populations in the child welfare system.

It’s a long road from the University of Pennsylvania to Amsterdam, but cancer research knows no bounds. 

Richard “Dick” Henriques has been appointed a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy, with a joint appointment at the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

After a major earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, University of Pennsylvania graduate student Sandeep Shah felt helpless.   But, he also knew that his interdisciplinary background in social work, finance and philanthropy could help those who needed it the most.