Through
4/26
Community Partnership Festival offered activities and honored the service of Penn students, staff, and partners working in local schools.
On SHOP PENN Day on Friday, March 23, the University will highlight its new focus on its retail district.
Students from University-assisted community schools showcased art pieces, spoken-word poetry, choir performances, and a dance routine highlighting the work of iconic musicians.
The Woodlands Grave Gardeners program, now in its third season, pairs volunteer gardeners with the park’s cradle graves—tombstones with a bathtub-like extension—to plant them with lush flowers, as the makers had intended.
The University is leveraging its expertise to fight the city’s opioid crisis on multiple fronts.
The HERstory/HIStory mentors from Penn’s W. E. B. Du Bois College House offer advice, wisdom, and friendship to local second-, third-, and fourth-graders.
Founded in 2011, the University City District’s West Philadelphia Skills Initiative connects employers seeking talent to unemployed West Philadelphia residents looking for work.
As Philadelphia’s largest private employer, Penn has a profound impact on the local and state economy.
An Alumni Charity Game at the Class of 1923 Arena celebrated a $7 million gift from Snider Youth Hockey Foundation and Flyers Alumni with a friendly hockey game among the Snider team and former Flyers.
A half-dozen student tour guides share a few things they wish they’d known as they started at Penn.
The Netter Center for Community Partnerships has more than 30 years of investment in connecting resources that address truancy, such as establishing after-school programming.
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A West Philadelphia mural has been dedicated to the late Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, formerly of Penn Carey Law, with a quote from Osagie Imasogie.
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In a video interview, Lauren Overton, principal of the Penn Alexander School and a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education, discusses how she and her staff at PAS have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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An in-depth examination looks at the solution that might have put a stop to the UC Townhomes housing crisis, with a glimpse at what President Liz Magill and her office are doing to help.
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Christopher Gruits of Penn Live Arts says that the new Stuart Weitzman Theatre will give artists more flexibility and completely transform the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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Penn Live Arts plans to transform Annenberg Plaza into a new performance space, the Stuart Weitzman Theater, expanding the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for the first time in 51 years.
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