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Gratitude is the attitude at Wharton
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Gratitude is the attitude at Wharton

Gratitude@Wharton is a student-created platform to express thanks and appreciation toward one another in order to create a more caring culture at the Wharton School.

Dee Patel

Pre-arrival and gateway testing for the start of the spring semester
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Pre-arrival and gateway testing for the start of the spring semester

Penn Today provides details on COVID-19 testing requirements for students, postdocs, faculty, and staff who are either enrolled in courses this spring or are coming to campus regularly.

Erica K. Brockmeier

A virtual day of service
People march waving signs that say "end segregated rules in public schools" and "we demand voting rights now"

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy continues to inspire, offering opportunities to reflect and engage.

A virtual day of service

Penn’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change will be virtual this year, offering events for adults and children of all ages.

Kristina García

What can be done to prevent and resist image-based abuse?
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What can be done to prevent and resist image-based abuse?

A virtual symposium held by Annenberg’s Center for Media at Risk and the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative brought together experts from around the world to analyze the abuse commonly referred to as “revenge porn.”

From Annenberg School for Communication

Empowering community engagement through theory and practice
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This fall, Participatory Cities, an SNF Paideia Program Course, delved into the history, methodology, and impacts of community participation and stakeholder involvement processes. Students took what they learned in the classroom and conducted their own engagement activities on campus, such as this freshman tabling event and survey. (Image: Mya Gordon)

Empowering community engagement through theory and practice

This fall, students applied community participation and stakeholder involvement processes to conduct their own outreach activities on campus as part of Participatory Cities, a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program course.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Penn-led nonprofit helps students with career advancement
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  • Q&A

    • Penn-led nonprofit helps students with career advancement

    A Wharton senior talks to Penn Today about how a nonprofit virtual platform, HowToStudent, is dedicated to helping students advance in their education and career regardless of their economic background.

    Dee Patel

    Math education and engagement in West Philadelphia
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    This fall, students in Math 123, one of Penn’s Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, applied the skills they learned about math education and communication while working with tenth graders in West Philadelphia.

    Math education and engagement in West Philadelphia

    This fall, students in Math 123 applied the skills they learned about math education and communication while working with 10th graders at Paul Robeson High School.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    The COVID landscape after a year with vaccines
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    The COVID landscape after a year with vaccines

    In a conversation hosted by LDI, experts from Penn, the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations discussed the vaccine rollout, boosters, misinformation, and more.

    Michele W. Berger

    Fighting food insecurity
    Four women in front of the Share food bank, and the two in the middle are waving to each other

    Laura Guerrero Peña (second from left), a senior studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Queens, New York, worked at Share Food Program over the fall semester.

    Fighting food insecurity

    Students from the Fox Leadership Program have lent their time and expertise to hunger organizations for more than a decade, and during the pandemic they’ve upped their involvement to meet the growing need.

    Kristen de Groot

    COVID-19 vaccine volunteers share their stories, one year later
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    COVID-19 vaccine volunteers share their stories, one year later

    On the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 vaccine authorizations, Penn Medicine highlights the volunteers who played a critical role in providing much needed hope, in addition to crucial data showing the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.

    From Penn Medicine News