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A first-of-its-kind academic social entrepreneurship lab
front steps of Penn Nursing’s Fagin Hall in sunlight

A first-of-its-kind academic social entrepreneurship lab

The Eidos LGBT+ Health Initiative, anchored in the School of Nursing, is part of a $750 million University investment in science, engineering, and medicine.

Michele W. Berger

Heart Safe Motherhood Program boosts access to care for at-risk new mothers
Pregnant person lying in a hospital bed wearing a face mask looking over a sheet of paper a doctor is showing them.

Nancy Maratea goes through the Heart Safe Motherhood Program brochure with a newly enrolled patient at CCH. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Heart Safe Motherhood Program boosts access to care for at-risk new mothers

A first-of-its-kind program created by Penn Medicine has radically altered how preeclampsia is treated. Heart Safe Motherhood enables doctors to monitor new mothers with high blood pressure remotely, from the comfort of their own home.

From Penn Medicine News

Penn’s Kwanzaa celebrates ‘regrounding our purpose’
Students watch a man lighting seven red and green candles for Kwanzaa. The table also displays plants, squash, and maize in representation of the harvest festival

Brian Peterson lights candles at the 30th annual Kwanzaa at Penn.

Penn’s Kwanzaa celebrates ‘regrounding our purpose’

Kwanzaa, an African American cultural holiday, starts on Dec. 26 and goes through New Year’s Day. At Penn, it's a time to come together and take stock.

Kristina García

Penn’s Medical Emergency Response Team, ‘prepared for anything’
mert students treating person with arm injury

Penn’s Medical Emergency Response Team, ‘prepared for anything’

The student-run organization, which includes nearly 70 undergraduates who are licensed EMTs, complements the Division of Public Safety and Philadelphia Fire Department by responding to medical emergencies on campus.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Latin American and Latinx studies becomes a center
A woman in front of a microphone speaks to groups of seated and standing students

Tulia Falleti addresses the crowd at the Center's fall almuerzo, or lunch. 

Latin American and Latinx studies becomes a center

With over 30 years of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Penn, the academic program was established as a center in July.

Kristina García

A FAST approach to helping food insecurity
Onika Washington-Johnson hands a box of food to David Cabello in a parking lot.

Onika Washington-Johnson hands a box of food to David Cabello, founder of Black and Mobile food delivery service, outside of Share Food Program’s facility. (Image: Penn Medicine Service in Action)

A FAST approach to helping food insecurity

FAST (Food Access Support Technology) is a new platform created by Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Equity Advancement (CHEA) that connects health systems, food access community-based organizations and minority-owned small businesses to fight food insecurity.

From Penn Medicine Service in Action

Penn senior Max Wragan named George J. Mitchell Scholar
student standing outside

Penn senior Max Wragan is one of 12 in the nation chosen to receive a George J. Mitchell Scholarship for postgraduate study in Ireland in 2022-2023. 

Penn senior Max Wragan named George J. Mitchell Scholar

Senior Max Wragan, a neuroscience major and chemistry minor, has been selected for a George J. Mitchell Scholarship, which covers one academic year of postgraduate studies in Ireland, including stipends for living and travel expenses.