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The Gambia Goat Dairy builds sustainability through community
A woman takes the heartbeat of a goat while two men secure the goat.

Abby Seeley (center) of Penn Vet does a health check up on a goat with the assistance of Sulay Camara (left) and Sainey Badjie (right). (Image: Courtesy of Brianna Parsons)

The Gambia Goat Dairy builds sustainability through community

Since its founding by Penn Vet students in 2016, the Gambia Goat Dairy has worked in partnership with Gambians to serve its community. The research and teaching farm also gives current students the opportunity to use their veterinary skills for social good.

Luis Melecio-Zambrano

Exploring Mongolia with an insider’s view, no luggage necessary
Penn Global seminar students hold up cups outside the Winter Palace

Professor Christopher P. Atwood (left), the group’s guide Javzandulam Sodnom (right), and Penn Global seminar students at the ceremonial gate near the entrance to the Bogd Khan’s Winter Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They are toasting with small cups of “airag,” or fermented mare’s milk, a traditional drink which Penn graduate Yang Yuqing (yellow shirt, center), who is currently studying in Mongolia, brought for the class. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Global)

Exploring Mongolia with an insider’s view, no luggage necessary

Students in Christopher P. Atwood’s Penn Global seminar on Mongolian civilization explored the capital and vast grasslands of Mongolia, meeting welcoming locals along the way.

Kristen de Groot

‘Stop the Bleed’ program helps bystanders in India aid accident victims
A group of men in India stand in a line holding first aid kits and certificates

Participants in the A-B-C Stop the Bleed program hold their first aid kits and certificates of training in the Kalakal neighborhood, outside Hyderabad, India. (Image: Courtesy of A-B-C Stop the Bleed)

‘Stop the Bleed’ program helps bystanders in India aid accident victims

The innovative program addresses the country’s high rate of preventable fatalities by offering training on how to recognize and stop life-threatening bleeding.

Kristen de Groot

Penn Abroad: Rising senior Ricardo Del Rio in Switzerland
Ricardo Del Rio standing outside with snow-covered mountains behind him

Rising senior Ricardo Del Rio -- an electrical engineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from Guadalajara, Mexico -- studied abroad at ETH Zurich in Switzerland during the spring semester.

Penn Abroad: Rising senior Ricardo Del Rio in Switzerland

Rising senior Ricardo Del Rio, an electrical engineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, studied at ETH Zurich during the spring semester.
Penn Abroad: Rising senior Ariana Wiltjer in Ireland
Ariana Wiltjer standing in a courtyard, a friend on either side of her, with historic stone buildings in the background

Rising senior Ariana Wiltjer (center), an economics major and consumer psychology minor in the College of Arts and Sciences, studied abroad at Trinity College Dublin. A highlight of the spring semester experience was making her two now-best friends, rising Penn senior Sylvia Goldfond (left), and Johns Hopkins University May graduate Liv Marino (right). (Image: Courtesy of Ariana Wiltjer)

Penn Abroad: Rising senior Ariana Wiltjer in Ireland

Rising senior Ariana Wiltjer (center) studied at Trinity College Dublin during the spring semester. 
Penn Abroad: Rising senior Kiersten Thomas in Sweden 
Kiersten Thomas crouching in snow with dogs attached to dogsled on frozen tundra with mountains in the background

Rising senior Kiersten Thomas, a health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences studied abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Penn Abroad: Rising senior Kiersten Thomas in Sweden 

Rising senior Kiersten Thomas, a health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences studied abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics.
The Great War and memory
Penn students walk around World War One-era trenches in a French field

Students tour the battlefield in the Butte de Vauquois in northern France. (Image: Courtesy of Arielle Schweber)

The Great War and memory

History professor Warren Breckman took his Penn Global Seminar students to the Western Front area of northern France and Belgium to look at World War I through the intersections of personal and public memory.

Kristen de Groot

Can China stop climate change?
Scott Moore sitting on a bench Scott Moore, director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives, pictured along Locust Walk.

Can China stop climate change?

In a political science course and new book, Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives Scott Moore unfurls the layers of China’s approach to sustainability and technology.
Princess Rahman on ancient history, studying abroad, and her senior-year pivot
A woman wearing a visor and backpack holds a notebook in front of a stone wall with mountain views in the background

Studying abroad was a highlight of Princess Rahman’s college career. 

Princess Rahman on ancient history, studying abroad, and her senior-year pivot

Princess Rahman, a May graduate in the School of Arts & Sciences, pivoted from a pre-med track to become an ancient history major. After a semester abroad in Rome, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Egyptology.

Kristina García