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Reading young adult literature with young adults
Three students working on a project in a classroom.

Image: Steve Bining

Reading young adult literature with young adults

Penn GSE students in Jen McLaughlin Cahill’s course on YA literature, media, and culture welcomed ninth-grade students from Science Leadership Academy at Beeber into their classroom.

From Penn GSE

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Native North America Gallery opens at the Penn Museum
People visiting Penn’s new Native North American Gallery at the Penn Museum.

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Native North America Gallery opens at the Penn Museum

In partnership with eight Indigenous consulting curators, the newly renovated 2,000 sq. ft. gallery features more than 250 archaeological, historic, and contemporary items from the Museum’s North American collections.

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Processing grief through goats and accessibility
Grace Freund with a goat from the Philly Goat Project.

Grace Freund, an oncology nurse at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, with a goat from the Philly Goat Project.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Processing grief through goats and accessibility

A new Penn Medicine CAREs grant will make accessibility updates to a grief garden at the Philly Goat Project.

Eric Horvath

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Fostering cats and dogs in Philadelphia
Candace Adams holds cat.

Candace Adams with Black Pearl, one of her foster cats.

(Image: Courtesy of Candace Adams)

Fostering cats and dogs in Philadelphia

Outside of her day job at Penn’s Institutional Review Board, Candace Adams works with different organizations in Philadelphia to give temporary shelter and care to cats and dogs.

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Teaching creative Philadelphia youth career and entrepreneurship skills
Meryl Krieger sits in a room of high school students.

Meryl Krieger mentors high school students as part of her volunteering with the Philadelphia nonprofit Project 440.

(Image: Courtesy of Meryl Krieger)

Teaching creative Philadelphia youth career and entrepreneurship skills

As a volunteer with the nonprofit after-school program Project 440, Meryl Krieger, a senior learning designer for the College of Liberal & Professional Studies, helps artistically minded high school students with life skills.

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Election Day on campus, in pictures
Penn President J. Larry Jameson outside on Locust Walk talking with members of PLTV.

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Election Day on campus, in pictures

On Election Day, volunteers with Penn Leads the Vote were on hand with voting guides and civic swag for students. Penn President J. Larry Jameson joined the PLTV volunteers and cast his ballot at his campus polling location.

Penn Today Staff

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Connecting with America’s 250th anniversary
The Declaration of Independence at the National Archives

The Declaration of Independence on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

(Image: Mark Schiefelbein via AP Images)

Connecting with America’s 250th anniversary

Ahead of the main event on July 4, 2026, marking the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Penn students, faculty, and staff will have multiple early opportunities to engage with America’s 250th anniversary.

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Six new organizations chosen for 76ers, Penn Medicine violence prevention program

Six new organizations chosen for 76ers, Penn Medicine violence prevention program

The Assists for Safe Communities program announced the second cohort of organizations that will receive a share of donations tied to the total number of assists 76ers players record in the 2025-26 season; for every pass that leads to a basket, Penn Medicine and the 76ers will donate $76.