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Positioned for Success
Taussia Boadi and Cheryl Nnadi pose on Penn's campus in front of College Hall, green grass and a huge tree.

Cheryl Nnadi (left) and Taussia Boadi (right) created Positioned for Success, a 2023 winner of Projects for Progress.

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Positioned for Success

The program, launched by recent College of Arts and Sciences grads Taussia Boadi and Cheryl Nnadi, was a 2023 Projects for Progress winner and provides academic support to middle school students affected by gun violence.

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Can more art equal less crime?
Maya Moritz giving a lecture in front of a mural.

Maya Moritz presenting at the 2024 Penn Grad Talks. She won first place in the Social Science category.

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Can more art equal less crime?

Maya Moritz, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminology, is building the case, studying the effect of Philadelphia murals on the city’s crime rate.

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Penn Carey Law’s Paul H. Robinson’s book explores criminal law and societal values
Paul Robinson.

“Criminal law earns its moral authority by publicly committing itself to doing justice above all else,” says Paul H. Robinson.

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Penn Carey Law’s Paul H. Robinson’s book explores criminal law and societal values

The Colin S. Diver Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s new book is titled “American Criminal Law: Its People, Principles, and Evolution.”

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