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Design and build, but first, collaborate
A group of people in a small urban park in West Philadelphia.

Students and community members celebrated the Lex Street Garden’s completion on May 4, 2023.

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Design and build, but first, collaborate

The Weitzman School’s spring design-build studio was a collaboration between students, community leaders, and residents to develop a key site as a visible distillation of the New Freedom District in West Philadelphia.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Putting biomedical research advances within reach
A medical worker gives a person a Covid vaccine.

Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine Magazine

Putting biomedical research advances within reach

Treatments and vaccines are only useful in the hands of the people who need them, and Penn Medicine is working toward better access and equity for biomedical innovations.

Karen L. Brooks for Penn Medicine Magazine

Promoting exercise for healthy brain aging in the Latino community
Four older Latinx people with Ruby Rivera and Adriana Perez at a community health center.

Participants of Tiempo Juntos with community health promoter, Ruby Rivera and Adriana Perez.

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Promoting exercise for healthy brain aging in the Latino community

Penn Nursing’s Adriana Perez engages the Latino community in fitness classes through Tiempo Juntos Por Nuestra Salud.

From Penn Memory Center

The Prison Legal Education Project aids those fighting their own incarceration
Felicia Lin, right, with Marco Maldonado and Theophalis Wilson (left) in the stacks of the Penn Law Library.

The Prison Legal Education Project co-founder Felicia Lin, right, with Marco Maldonado and Theophalis Wilson (left) in the stacks of the Penn Law Library.

Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law

The Prison Legal Education Project aids those fighting their own incarceration

Co-founded by Penn Carey Law alumni Felicia Lin and Miriam Nemeth, PLEP supports incarcerated individuals in leading their own successful legal advocacy.

From Penn Carey Law

A time to celebrate for inaugural SNF Paideia Fellows
snf fellows on locust walk

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A time to celebrate for inaugural SNF Paideia Fellows

The first cohort of fellows is set to graduate, taking with them the pillars of the SNF Paideia Program—dialogue, citizenship, service, and wellness—on their next life adventures.

Kristen de Groot

2023 Projects for Progress recipients announced
College Green with cherry blossoms.

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2023 Projects for Progress recipients announced

Three interdisciplinary teams of faculty, staff, and students at Penn will be awarded up to $100,000 each to grow their respective initiatives.

Penn Today Staff

A decade of medicine, business, and technology at PennHealthX
Tiffany Yeh holding up a sheet of transparent material.

Combining her background in materials engineering with her medical degree, Tiffany Yeh opted not to pursue a residency. Instead, she is launching a startup business designing cold therapy wearables.

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A decade of medicine, business, and technology at PennHealthX

PennHealthX, started as a traditional extracurricular club, has grown into an influential student-driven creative hub for projects and programs at the intersection of medicine with other disciplines.

From Penn Medicine News

Student climate champions gather to share stories and inspiration
person dressed as a polar bear performs for a crowd

John Jarboe of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret performed as “the last polar bear on Earth” at WHYY headquarters. 

(Image: Emily Kaufman/PPEH)

Student climate champions gather to share stories and inspiration

More than 150 Philadelphia high schoolers came together at WHYY in a climate storytelling event organized by the public media company and the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.

Katherine Unger Baillie