Outreach

Eric Anglero stands in the hallway of the LGBT Center, a rainbow flag to their right

Eric Anglero at the LGBT Center

Almost one year into their new role as director of the LGBT Center, Eric Anglero looks to support students and community with robust programming and a place where “you can just be.”

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Members of Penn’s African Health Clinic.

Care across cultures: Penn Medicine African Health Clinic

For the last two years, the Perelman School of Medicine has partnered with the African Family Health Organization to offer weekly family-medicine/primary care clinics for recent immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean.

Alex Gardner ・

An adult giving a high school student menstrual pads.

A champion for period products in Pennsylvania schools

Kayla Cook ensures that all middle and high school students in a Lancaster school district have access to dispensing bins, which hold tampons, pads, and liners in every individual women’s or gender-neutral bathroom stall.

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Steve Fluharty seated at a table with hands folded.

A decade-plus legacy of Penn Arts & Sciences

In recognition of the end of Steven J. Fluharty’s term as dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, a look at the School’s growth and innovation over 12 years.

Loraine Terrell, Michele W. Berger ・

Penn students and Sayre high school students wading in a river in Cobbs Creek.

Rivers in a changing world

A new Academically Based Community Service class brings Penn and William L. Sayre High School students together to learn environmental science and engineering.

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A group of Penn students pose for a selfie.

A semester of community on campus

Penn’s fall semester officially began in August, as many students returned to campus. While staff, faculty, and postdocs are largely in West Philadelphia year-round, the fall marks a reset and starting point for many. The late summer and mild fall weather brings the natural beauty of campus to life.

Tina Rodia ・

Jovian Patterson looks at some raspberry bushes growing in a community garden.

‘Deeply Rooted’ community partnerships

Deeply Rooted is a community partnership that plants trees, greens vacant lots, and funds grassroots programs. The goal: health justice in action.

Christina Hernandez Sherwood for Penn Medicine Magazine ・



In the News


Black Enterprise

Jay-Z’s Shawn Carter Foundation launches HCU champions for financial legacy program

The Wharton School has partnered with Jay-Z’s Shawn Carter Foundation to launch the Champions for Financial Legacy program to boost students’ financial literacy and equip them with the skills to build wealth within their communities.

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CBS Philadelphia

Philadelphia doctors and scientists encourage young women to pursue STEM careers at Penn event

The STEM Goes Red event hosted at Penn Medicine showed young Philadelphia women in high school how to program miniature computers, with remarks from Helene Glassberg of the Perelman School of Medicine.

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WHYY (Philadelphia)

Free West Philly community clinic, which provided care to hundreds, is closed

Penn Medicine resident Noor Shaik and Michael Rubenstein of the Perelman School of Medicine discuss a West Philadelphia clinic that became a model for collaborations between academic health systems and community organizations.

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Broadway World

Musicians On Call raises over $340,000 during 25th anniversary celebration in NYC

Sue Berkowitz was honored for visiting almost 6,000 people at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as a volunteer for Musicians On Call.

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Bloomberg Law

How law schools are preparing students for the new world of work

Penn Carey Law is noted for offering a leadership course and a crisis-management bootcamp, as well as a week-long intensive “Business Management for Lawyers” certificate with the Wharton School.

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NPR

For some artists, a guaranteed income program has been a lifesaver

Kalen Flynn of the School for Social Policy & Practice says that guaranteed income programs give artists creative freedom and allow them to take risks with their art.

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