Update on Penn’s $100M pledge to Philadelphia public schools The funding Penn is providing to Philadelphia Public Schools is being used to remediate environmental hazards in schools throughout the city, including the 100-year-old Roxborough High School in North Philadelphia.nocred Update on Penn’s $100M pledge to Philadelphia public schools Significant progress has been made in the four years since Penn pledged $100 million to the School District of Philadelphia to remediate environmental hazards, including asbestos and lead, in hundreds of school buildings.
Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia Dorit Aviv uses an infrared camera to demonstrate the effects of the Tenopy’s radiant cooling panels on Hanzhong Luo.nocred Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia Researchers from three University of Pennsylvania schools collaborated with a Hunting Park nonprofit to design, build, and test a prototype of a cooling shelter to place at a bus stop.
A climate expert’s return to Penn Jen Wilcox has returned to the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and to the School of Engineering and Applied Science following three years in at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she served in the Biden Administration as the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management.(Image: Courtesy of Jen Wilcox) A climate expert’s return to Penn Jen Wilcox, an expert on direct-air capture, is the inaugural faculty appointment in the Kleinman Center and served for three years as principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy. She discusses her time away and her return to Penn.
With NSO preceptorials, a chance to be curious A scene from a fall 2023 preceptorial.(Image: Courtesy of New Student Orientation) With NSO preceptorials, a chance to be curious Preceptorials, a New Student Orientation tradition for first-year undergraduates, run this Saturday, Aug. 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
University of Pennsylvania Health System and Doylestown Health sign definitive agreement Celebrating the signing of the definitive agreement are, from left, Kevin Mahoney, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System; Jonathan Epstein, interim executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and dean of the Perelman School of Medicine; Kathleen Krick, president of the Village Improvement Association of Doylestown; Marianne Chabot, chair of the boards at Doylestown Hospital and Doylestown Health Foundation and vice president of Health Services at Village Improvement Association of Doylestown; and Jim Brexler, president and CEO of Doylestown Health.(Image: Carol Berman) University of Pennsylvania Health System and Doylestown Health sign definitive agreement Bucks County system’s integration into UPHS will expand access to advanced health care for patients and families in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Restoring the public purpose of America’s urban universities Penn students and district staff with students at Lea Elementary. nocred Restoring the public purpose of America’s urban universities A new Netter Center white paper written in collaboration with eight universities highlights mutually beneficial university-community partnerships.
An empty outdoor space is transformed into a social garden nocred An empty outdoor space is transformed into a social garden A 2023 Project for Progress initiative, the Breathing Room at Sayre High School was unveiled this spring.
Welcoming the first babies from Penn Fertility in Lancaster Ashlee Rineer (right) is holding Eleanor who is two years old this month, and her partner Lauren (left) is holding Edie, who was born in February 2024.(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News) Welcoming the first babies from Penn Fertility in Lancaster The Penn Fertility Care practice is the first and only fertility clinic in Lancaster County that has an embryology lab, allowing patients outside of the Philadelphia metro area equal access to the full range of Penn Fertility services and treatments.
Introducing the West Philadelphia Creative Grants nocred Introducing the West Philadelphia Creative Grants Chloe Reison, associate director of The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, explains the West Philadelphia Creative Grants and how to apply.
Connecting the West Philadelphia community to careers nocred Connecting the West Philadelphia community to careers The West Philadelphia Skills Initiative is a workforce development partnership between the University City District, Penn Medicine, and the University committed to develop career opportunities for local residents.