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Getting creative to communicate science
(from left to right) Yidi Wang, Yi Wang, Deependra Singh, and Marielle Ong.

Graduate students (from left to right) Yidi Wang, Yi Wang, Deependra Singh, and Marielle Ong. The volunteers helped Ong carry out her vision for the first iteration of the math circles—interactive, puzzle-based sessions—with a group of eight students at West Philadelphia High School.

(Image: Courtesy of Marielle Ong for OMNIA)

Getting creative to communicate science

Across Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, students and professors are devising imaginative ways to bring their scientific work to the public.

From Omnia

Netter Center holiday book parties
Two college students lean over a table to talk with elementary school students

Penn students and district staff with students at Lea Elementary.

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Netter Center holiday book parties

At annual events hosted by the Netter Center’s Community School Student Partnerships, Penn students partner with K-12 West Philadelphia students.

Kristina García

The 2023 Provost/Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award
Ira Harkavy, Paulette Branson, Andy Tan, and John L. Jackson Jr. pose together at an award ceremony. Branson and Tan both hold plaques.

From left to right: Ira Harkavy, Paulette Branson, Andy Tan, and John L. Jackson Jr. 

(Image: Tarah Paul)

The 2023 Provost/Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award

Andy Tan, an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, and community partners Cross-Grade Sports and OurSpace were honored for their work in the West Philadelphia community.

Kristina García

Holiday giving at Penn
Isabel Sampson-Mapp sits on a table piled with colorful knitwear

Around the holidays, “Penn folks, they really, stretch out, from giving gifts to feeding people,” says Isabel Sampson-Mapp of the Netter Center, who runs annual drives for food and clothing. “We have amazing volunteers. There’s no way I could do it without help.”

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Holiday giving at Penn

From shoes and coats to Hot Wheels and Paw Patrol, the Netter Center’s Isabel Sampson-Mapp coordinates holiday giving.

Kristina García

Helping Philadelphia high school students communicate health research
Brittany Zulkiewicz teaches at a blackboard in a high school classroom.

Brittany Zulkiewicz discusses group dynamics and the process of working together.

(Image: Thandi Lyew)

Helping Philadelphia high school students communicate health research

Annenberg School doctoral students Thandi Lyew and Brittany Zulkiewicz worked with local teens through a Penn Graduate Community-Engaged Research Fellowship.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Your Food Story: A Sayre High School internship collaboration
A group of students from Sayre with Latifah Wright in the hallway at TILT. Images from other teens are tacked on the drywall.

Latifah Wright, far left, teaches photography to teens at TILT in a Fishtown, Philadelphia building that first served as horse stables, then a fish-packing plant, and now offers modular space for artists. Mounted on the white drywall are images from other teen photographers. 

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Your Food Story: A Sayre High School internship collaboration

With support from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, a Netter Center and Penn Museum internship encourages and displays the art and vision of Sayre High School students.

Kristina García

A new generation reinterprets Paul Robeson, singer, actor, advocate, and all-American icon
robeson docent gives a tour to a student, holding a music record

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A new generation reinterprets Paul Robeson, singer, actor, advocate, and all-American icon

In collaboration with The Netter Center for Community Partnerships, ninth-grade students from Paul Robeson High School trained to become youth docents at the Paul Robeson House and Museum through a program funded by The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.

Kristina García