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Helping first responders avoid on-the-job injuries
Ann Seaton seated in the back of an ambulance.

Ann Seaton is an athletic trainer employed by Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Physicians Sports Medicine.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Helping first responders avoid on-the-job injuries

A collaboration with an athletic trainer who encourages stretches and preventative measures is keeping emergency responders safer on the job.

From Penn Medicine News

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.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Memory Center)

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