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A physician compelled to help Ukrainian refugees from thousands of miles away
A roadside aid site at a Ukrainian border.

Roadside aid site at the Ukrainian border. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

A physician compelled to help Ukrainian refugees from thousands of miles away

Chester County Hospital’s Kevin Sowti has assisted in humanitarian efforts globally. As an immigrant, he was compelled to help Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion.

From Penn Medicine News

Peggy Browning Fellows are advocating for labor rights
Facade of Penn Law building on a corner with passersby on the sidewalk.

Peggy Browning Fellows are advocating for labor rights

Supported by the Peggy Browning Fund, three Penn Carey Law students are advocating for labor rights, inspired by their own experiences as activists, organizers, and workers.

From Penn Carey Law

In Kennett Square, PennPraxis helps build community, one leader at a time
Sara Sterchak talks with someone at at the Juneteenth festival in Kennett Square

Design fellow Sara Sterchak speaks with community members at the 2022 Juneteenth festival in Kennett Square about the PennPraxis’ project. (Image: Katie Levesque)

In Kennett Square, PennPraxis helps build community, one leader at a time

While much community planning work is focused on limited interventions or short-lived programs targeting singular issues, PennPraxis partnerships focus on cultivating longer trajectories of community involvement.

From the Weitzman School of Design

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.”

From Penn GSE

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 fish harvest that’s more sustainable—and tastier, too
Wharton graduate Saif Khawaja

Saif Khawaja, a graduate of Wharton, is one of the winners of the inaugural Penn President’s Sustainability Prizes.

A fish harvest that’s more sustainable—and tastier, too

December graduate Saif Khawaja’s President’s Sustainability Prize is helping him build Shinkei Systems, a company that has developed a robotics-based system for minimizing waste in the fishing industry.

Katherine Unger Baillie