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Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids
A teacher writing math problems on a white board in front of an elementary school student.

Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids

The Responsive Math Teaching project, currently funded by the National Science, has kids in West Philly schools engaging in the work, rather than passively completing it, through summer “math festivals.”

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A success story from Southern Africa
A group of doctors looking at an x-ray in a children’s hospital in Botswana.

(Homepage image) Medical trainees and members of the BUP team, including CHOP pediatrician Henry Welch (second from left), review a chest X-ray. (Image: Ryan Littman-Quinn)

A success story from Southern Africa

The Botswana-UPenn Partnership celebrates 20 years of medical, scholarly, and educational progress.

Meredith Mann

Inside the Quaker’s head
Sophia Zehler removes the Quaker mascot head in costume at the Palestra.

Inside the Quaker’s head

Sophia Zehler recently earned her master’s degree from the Fels Institute of Government. The first-generation Cuban American also spent the year as Penn’s mascot, her third mascotting position in five years.

Michele W. Berger

‘Trusted messengers’ distill science, debunk myths about COVID-19 vaccine
A person, Helaine Heggs, standing outside in front of a tree.

Helaine Heggs is one of 24 ambassadors recruited by VaxUpPhillyFamilies, an initiative spearheaded by Penn’s School of Nursing, in collaboration with the Annenberg School for Communication, Perelman School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philly Counts, and Konquered Healthcare Solutions. (Image: Linda Jiang)

‘Trusted messengers’ distill science, debunk myths about COVID-19 vaccine

VaxUpPhillyFamilies, led by Penn’s School of Nursing, engages Philadelphia parents and caregivers as vaccine ambassadors to identify concerns and provide support related to COVID-19 vaccines, increase vaccine uptake, and address social support needs.

Michele W. Berger

Learning nursing care in a different type of classroom
Nursing student Aman Uppal assists a student from the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy during art class. She holds up a painting, and painting supplies are all around.

Nursing student Aman Uppal (standing) with one of the students at the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy, where she did a clinical rotation this summer. (Image: Courtesy of HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy)

Learning nursing care in a different type of classroom

Penn Nursing students Aman Uppal and Michelle Tran spent the summer before their final semesters in a clinical rotation at the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy.

Marilyn Perkins Michele W. Berger , Ed Federico

A better approach to Integrated Student Support
A. Brooks Bowden in her library.

Penn GSE assistant professor A. Brooks Bowden. (Image: Penn GSE)

A better approach to Integrated Student Support

Penn GSE’s A. Brooks Bowden joined a working group of experts to draft a new set of national guidelines for Integrated Student Support.

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Educating community-oriented biologists
A student smiling in a lab wearing a lab coat.

Reginald Kwarteng is an undergraduate student researcher in the Wagner Lab. (Image: Wil Prall)

Educating community-oriented biologists

Mecky Pohlschröder of the School of Arts & Sciences reflects on an SNF Paideia course that connects research conducted in the STEM field to the broader community, allowing students to observe the influences of their work outside of the lab.

Who, What, Why: Annenberg doctoral student Ava Irysa Kikut
Ava Kikut in front of the Annenberg School for Communication

Ava Kikut, a 2020-22 Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellow, focuses on health communication. 

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Annenberg doctoral student Ava Irysa Kikut

    Through a Netter Center ABCS course, Kikut worked with high school students and Penn undergrads to develop media messages that speak to the health needs and inequalities pertinent to adolescent Philadelphians.

    Kristina García