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After 50 Brutalist years, the Annenberg Center plans to stretch out, open up
WHYY (Philadelphia)

After 50 Brutalist years, the Annenberg Center plans to stretch out, open up

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.

In sprint to November, Democrats seize on shifting landscape over abortion
The Washington Post

In sprint to November, Democrats seize on shifting landscape over abortion

Grad student Rebecca Wu of the School of Nursing explains why she switched her voter registration from California to Pennsylvania, with additional Penn students and organizers featured in photographs.

Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids
A teacher writing math problems on a white board in front of an elementary school student.

Penn GSE makes math meaningful for West Philly kids

The Responsive Math Teaching project, currently funded by the National Science, has kids in West Philly schools engaging in the work, rather than passively completing it, through summer “math festivals.”

From Penn GSE

A mural to honor a civil rights pioneer
A. Leon Higginbotham.

The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.

A mural to honor a civil rights pioneer

The unveiling of the design of a new mural honoring the life and legacy of the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. was held last month, a collaboration between Penn Carey Law, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and The Philadelphia Citizen.

From Penn Carey Law

Learning nursing care in a different type of classroom
Nursing student Aman Uppal assists a student from the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy during art class. She holds up a painting, and painting supplies are all around.

Nursing student Aman Uppal (standing) with one of the students at the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy, where she did a clinical rotation this summer. (Image: Courtesy of HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy)

Learning nursing care in a different type of classroom

Penn Nursing students Aman Uppal and Michelle Tran spent the summer before their final semesters in a clinical rotation at the HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy.

Marilyn Perkins Michele W. Berger , Ed Federico

Who, What, Why: Annenberg doctoral student Ava Irysa Kikut
Ava Kikut in front of the Annenberg School for Communication

Ava Kikut, a 2020-22 Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellow, focuses on health communication. 

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Annenberg doctoral student Ava Irysa Kikut

    Through a Netter Center ABCS course, Kikut worked with high school students and Penn undergrads to develop media messages that speak to the health needs and inequalities pertinent to adolescent Philadelphians.

    Kristina García

    Commemorating Juneteenth
    Person dancing at a Juneteenth celebration wearing a t-shirt that reads BREAKING EVERY CHAIN SINCE 1865.

    Image: USAG-Humphreys

    Commemorating Juneteenth

    As Penn observes Juneteenth as an official University holiday, Penn Today chronicles events and resources across campus.

    Penn Today Staff

    Penn Dental’s Penntorship connects with the West Philadelphia community
    Two smiling women stand in blue medical scrubs on a sunny day.

    Kylie Schlesinger (left) and Julie Berenblum (right) founded the Penntorship program to connect mentors from the Penn Dental school to students from West Philadelphia High School. (Image: Courtesy of Kylie Schlesinger and Julie Berenblum)

    Penn Dental’s Penntorship connects with the West Philadelphia community

    Amid the COVID lockdown, Penn Dental Medicine students Kylie Schlesinger and Julie Berenblum founded a mentorship program for high schoolers in West Philadelphia.

    Luis Melecio-Zambrano