“In Philadelphia, in particular West Philly, there’s a lot of communities that don’t have the access to health care that they need, even though Penn is right here,” says Moorkanat (right). “Our thinking behind this was that if we can deliver the resources to them, instead of making them come to Penn, maybe we can start to bridge that gap.”
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Educate to Empower aims to break down barriers to breast cancer screenings
With the President’s Engagement Prize, fourth-years Simran Rajpal and Gauthami Moorkanat plan to deliver education and resources directly to community centers in Philadelphia, tackling medical mistrust, health literacy, and more.
Tuesday was primary day in Pennsylvania, and Penn’s campus played host to three polling places where students and the community could cast their ballots.
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Penn students, staff work the polls on primary day
Penn’s campus played host to eight polling places where students and community members cast their ballots, with a team of trained poll workers keeping the action running smoothly.
Ara Patvakanian says double majoring in mathematical economics and political science has given him “a deep understanding of the conditions that make economies run, why certain ones collapse while others thrive.”
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Who, What, Why: Ara Patvakanian
The fourth-year mathematical economics and political science double-major describes how our understanding of economic and political phenomena can have far-reaching consequences and highlights the importance of embracing different intellectual perspectives.
Kate Gilmore (center) spoke to the audience about why gender regressive policies are gaining traction globally.
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Former UN official on regressive gender-based policies
Speaking at Perry World House (PWH), former United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights Kate Gilmore, a PWH Visiting Fellow, addressed regressive reproductive and gender-based policies that have gained traction globally.
World leaders who came to Penn in recent weeks include (left to right) Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio; former South African President Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe; and former Peruvian President and Penn alum Francisco Sagasti.
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A trio of events welcome world leaders to Penn
In recent weeks, the Center for Africana Studies hosted the president of Sierra Leone and a former president of South Africa, while Perry World House had a conversation with a former leader of Peru.
NBC’s Lester Holt (right) and producer Dan Slepian (left) talked about their reporting work on criminal justice reform at the Quattrone Center’s 2024 symposium.
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NBC’s Lester Holt, Dan Slepian discuss raising the voices of the voiceless
As part of the Quattrone Center’s spring symposium at Penn Carey Law, the news veterans highlighted their work reporting on issues of mass incarceration, wrongful conviction, and criminal justice reform.
Simon Richter (left) chats with Dutch comedian Patrick Nederkoorn in a still from the documentary “A New Peace of Münster.”
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‘Moving along’ to the Dutch-German border
A new documentary co-produced and co-starring Simon Richter of the School of Arts & Sciences invites viewers to imagine the day when the Dutch may have to move toward Germany as sea levels rise and how that might happen peacefully and innovatively.
U.S. Border Patrol agents with migrants seeking asylum, mainly from Colombia, China, and Ecuador, in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States on Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba, California.
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Immigration policy and the 2024 presidential election
An April 2 symposium will bring together policy analysts, immigration scholars, and representatives of nonprofit advocacy organizations to discuss immigration policies and their impact.
