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‘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.

Louisa Shepard

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. 

Louisa Shepard

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.

Louisa Shepard

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.
  • Q&A

    • 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 Linnea García

    Exploration awaits as Penn Abroad ramps up student trips
    A group of students sit and smile for the camera on the ground in the Galapagos while a large lizard walks in the foreground.

    (Homepage image) Participants in the Penn Global Seminar to the Galápagos Islands traveled over winter break to see first-hand the ecology, evolution, and natural history of Galápagos, along with the growing impact of humans on this fragile place. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Abroad)

    Exploration awaits as Penn Abroad ramps up student trips

    Two years after the pandemic forced Penn Abroad to brings students home, trips are back on and a busier-than-normal abroad schedule is coming in fall 2022.

    Kristen de Groot

    In Peru and the U.S., considering the factors that drive public health
    Michael Levy

    Michael Z. Levy, whose own research uses interdisciplinary methods to shed light on epidemiology and public health, taught the course with colleague César Ugarte-Gil and featured a bevy of guest experts. (Image: Peggy Peterson)

    In Peru and the U.S., considering the factors that drive public health

    By comparing and contrasting the two nations’ approaches to controlling infectious diseases, students in Parallel Plagues deepened their appreciation of how these diseases emerge, cause harm, and might be effectively controlled.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Perry World House turns 5
    grand opening of perry world house

    Students, faculty, dignitaries, and special guests came out for the grand opening of Perry World House on Sept. 20, 2016.

    Perry World House turns 5

    In a photo essay, Penn Today highlights some of the center’s memorable guests and events from over the half decade.

    Kristen de Groot