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2020 voting report: By the numbers
Students bend over to fill out paperwork on a table

Students sign up on National Voter Registration Day in September 2021. 

2020 voting report: By the numbers

Penn students voted in unprecedented numbers during the 2020 presidential election, in part due to the voter-engagement program Penn Leads the Vote, which recently won the 2021 ALL IN Democracy Challenge Best Action Plan Award.

Kristina García

Sharon Wolf’s work in Ghana expands to address pandemic-related inequalities
Sharon Wolf gesturing with her hands speaking to someone in an office.

Penn GSE assistant professor Sharon Wolf. (Image: Penn GSE)

Sharon Wolf’s work in Ghana expands to address pandemic-related inequalities

The assistant professor at Penn GSE applies research of children, their primary caregiver, and teachers throughout the pandemic about their experiences with remote schooling to a new approach in controlling learning opportunities before gaps in learning form.

From Penn GSE

A Black-owned radio station, a physician, and a quest to prevent colon cancer
A pair of hands holding a cancer screening kit vial in one hand and paperwork in another extended to a person standing in a park.

A FIT Kit comes in an envelope and includes instructions, a prepaid return mailing envelope, and a small tube to contain a probe that the user will insert into a stool sample to capture a tiny particle. In the lab, the small sample is tested for signs of blood in the stool, which may not be visible. (Image: Penn Medicine Service in Action)

A Black-owned radio station, a physician, and a quest to prevent colon cancer

A unique community-based campaign by Penn Medicine, WURD, Philadelphia’s Black-owned and -operated talk radio station, and other organizations provide free colon cancer testing kits and follow-up support to Philadelphia residents.

From Penn Medicine News

Centering Black students in language education
professor standing in front of Graduate School of Education building

Flores was a co-organizer of a conference at Penn examining equity for Black students in language education. 

Centering Black students in language education

Ensuring equity for Black students in language education was the focus of a conference co-organized by the Graduate School of Education’s Nelson Flores, an expert in bilingual education.
One stop for students’ financial questions
Two women wearing masks sit at a white round table in front of a red wall, with a colorful photograph of Penn's College Hall in the foreground

Lyndsi Burcham (right) speaks with peer counselor Dana Kimmelman, in one of the Student Service Center’s “huddle rooms.”

One stop for students’ financial questions

Newly open this fall, the Student Service Center provides a single point of access for the bursar’s office, the registrar, and student financial aid

Kristina García

2021 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education honorees boast transformative accomplishments, Penn ties
Michael Golden, Pam Grossman, Suzanne McGraw, and Harold McGraw.

From left: Michael Golden, executive director of Catalyst @ Penn GSE; Pam Grossman, dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; Suzanne McGraw; and Harold McGraw III, former chair, CEO and president of The McGraw Hill Companies.

2021 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education honorees boast transformative accomplishments, Penn ties

Often regarded as the “Nobel Prize of Education,” the McGraw Prize is awarded annually to leaders who are pushing beyond the boundaries of the current education landscape and revolutionizing the field.

From Penn GSE

Supporting Philadelphia newcomers and longtime residents through Palms Solutions
Person holds up sign that says "Free Food" at a distribution event

Wil Prall, a biology doctoral student, volunteered as part of Palm It Forward, an event organized by Palms Solutions to support the West Philadelphia community during the pandemic. (Image: Courtesy of Mecky Pohlschröder)

Supporting Philadelphia newcomers and longtime residents through Palms Solutions

Founded by a Penn alum, the West Philadelphia-based nonprofit connects members from area African and Caribbean immigrant communities with students through mentoring and tutoring alongside social and cultural exchanges.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Al Filreis dwells in possibility
Al Filreis standing in front of the Kelly Writers House

Al Filreis, an English professor at Penn since 1995, founded the Kelly Writers House on Locust Walk in 1995 and has since served as the faculty director.

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Al Filreis dwells in possibility

Celebrating poetry and literature at Penn since 1985, Al Filreis continues to create community at the home for writers he founded in a Locust Walk house a quarter-century ago.
Scholarship and identity through family, Afrofuturism, and 1,600 vinyl records
DJ Kid Charlemagne spins records at a turntable, a pool table is behind him.

DJ Kid Charlemagne, aka Antoine Haywood. (Image: Annenberg School for Communication)

Scholarship and identity through family, Afrofuturism, and 1,600 vinyl records

As part of his ongoing exploration into multimodal scholarship, doctoral student Antoine Haywood pairs his newly published autoethnographic essay with a curated soundtrack.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Models of Excellence program accepting nominations
The LOVE statue on Penn campus

Image: Human Resources

Models of Excellence program accepting nominations

Models of Excellence program accepting nominations. In addition to the traditional award categories, a special award category—Supporting Penn Through COVID-19 and Return to Campus Work—has been added.

Dee Patel