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Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
High school students in a science class.

Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.

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Penn receives national distinction for community engagement

The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core
Philadelphia’s Market Street east of City Hall in 1889.

Philadelphia’s Market Street east of City Hall in 1889.

(Image: John Gibb, Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection)

A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core

Studio Plus design students at Weitzman focused on working through the future of Philadelphia’s Market East neighborhood, and explored issues of historic preservation, urban planning, and housing.

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Health in Philly, past and present
Students standing listening to a person speaking.

Students in Andi Johnson’s course Health in Philly: Past and Present visited the nonprofit organization Bebashi in December to present their findings from interviews with staff.

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Health in Philly, past and present

This fall, in Andi Johnson’s course Health in Philly: Past and Present, students worked closely with leadership of the health-focused nonprofit Bebashi to identify ways they could better support staff, while visiting other local health organizations to learn more about how they address issues facing city residents.

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The Mobile CPR Project takes lifesaving training on the road
Josh Glick instructing a course on hands-only CPR at the Boys & Girls Club.

Josh Glick instructing a course on hands-only CPR at the Boys & Girls Club in Wissahickon.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

The Mobile CPR Project takes lifesaving training on the road

When cardiac arrest hits outside the hospital, the odds of survival are long. The Mobile CPR Project is driving to increase those odds with free trainings all around Philadelphia and beyond.

From Penn Medicine News

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Exploring Philadelphia’s petrochemical past
An illustration of the Philadelphia Gas works complex in 1890

Philadelphia Gas Works in an 1890 illustration. It sat on the east side of the Schuylkill River, between Market and Filbert streets.

(Image: David J. Kennedy. Courtesy of Historical Society of Philadelphia, via petrodelphia.org.)

Exploring Philadelphia’s petrochemical past

Penn historian Jared Farmer recently launched a website about Philadelphia’s fossil fuel economy to help students and residents learn about the local past in larger context.

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Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
A sculpture of a crocodile eatings its tail made in filament and resin.

“White Ouroboros II” by Allison Janae Hamilton. The Institute for Contemporary Art will feature the first museum survey of the artist in the spring of 2027.

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Two 2025 project grants and a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

WXPN and the Institute for Contemporary Art each received creative project grants and filmmaker Sosena Solomon, who teaches in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, was named a 2025 Pew Fellow.

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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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