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Daniel Morales-Armstrong’s ‘Inclusive City’
Masked adults sit four to a table with papers and folders during a brainstorming session.

Participants and Inclusive City students facilitate charrette brainstorming sessions. (Image: OMNIA)

Daniel Morales-Armstrong’s ‘Inclusive City’

The William Fontaine Fellow of Africana Studies and History helms a course designed to lead students in a collaborative engagement with a local Philadelphian community.

Blake Cole

Reproductive justice in nursing
A transgender person wearing a medical gown sits on an exam table speaking to a doctor.

Image: The Gender Spectrum Collection

Reproductive justice in nursing

The Penn chapter of Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health works to expand students’ engagement in Reproductive justice.
Penn Medicine’s new center to improve surgical equity for vulnerable patients
Front entrance of the PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar.

PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Penn Medicine’s new center to improve surgical equity for vulnerable patients

The Center for Surgical Health provides a new access point into sustainable, high-value surgical care for patients who typically rely on the emergency room for treatment.

Steve Graff

Vaccine conversations go door-to-door
Yuhnis Syndor stands on the steps holding a clipboard and wearing a mask, speaking to Cristal LaTorre on their front porch with two children.

Canvasser Yuhnis Syndor, 57, speaks to Cristal LaTorre, 35, about the vaccine in West Philadelphia, PA, on May 20, 2021. (Image: Penn Medicine Service in Action)

Vaccine conversations go door-to-door

Canvasser with the West Philadelphia Vaccine Street Team Pilot Program go door to door to dispel misinformation and show their neighbors that vaccination is safe, by example.

From Penn Medicine Service in Action

How the human-animal bond complements treatment for veterans
Person in wheelchair pets a service dog sitting in the grass next to them.

How the human-animal bond complements treatment for veterans

For some military veterans, these four-legged accomplices also take on the role of therapist and confidant in the battle against post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Penn Medicine News

P.O. Box 34: Students connect with incarcerated writers
House number sign that reads 34.

Image: Marianne Bos vis Unsplash

P.O. Box 34: Students connect with incarcerated writers

Incarcerated writers who participate in the P.O. Box 34 program are paired up with a Penn undergraduate student who corresponds with them about their work.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Dancing outside with Pride
Seven people dancing outside in a Penn courtyard.

Dancing outside with Pride

Penn’s LGBT Center hosted “Dance Outside w/ Pride,” a virtual and in-person dance class with Philadelphia choreographer Devon Sinclair, as part of its monthlong Pride roster of events for both virtual and in-person celebrations.
Ballerina Emily Davis is ‘on her toes’
Ballerina Emily Davis completed her Penn degree while dancing with the Pennsylvania Ballet.

May graduate Emily Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the College of Liberal and Professional Studies while working full-time as a ballerina with the Pennsylvania Ballet and volunteering to conduct research at CHOP and community service with Philadelphia nonprofits. (Image: Arian Molina Soca)

Ballerina Emily Davis is ‘on her toes’

May graduate Emily Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the College of Liberal and Professional Studies while working full-time as a ballerina with the Pennsylvania Ballet and volunteering to conduct research at CHOP and community service with Philadelphia nonprofits.