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This is the second of two features introducing the University of Pennsylvania’s 2016 President’s Innovation Prize winners.

Penn’s engagement with the Native American community can be traced back to University founder Benjamin Franklin, a noted admirer of Native American culture, who recruited two Mohawk students to Penn in 1755

This is the first of two features introducing the University of Pennsylvania’s 2016 President’s Innovation Prize winners. A rough estimate of the amount of steps taken in a day might be enough for the average fitness tracker or smartwatch user, but, for people with movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease, more fine-grained data could be life changing.

(In the second of a two part series on the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural Penn Global Seminars, two professors share how they crossed schools and disciplines to co-teach a course with an embedded short study-abroad trip to Paris.)

(In the first of a two part series on the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural Penn Global Seminars, undergraduates share what they learned traveling to Morocco and Zanzibar as part of the study-abroad component of one of the seminar courses.)

Through the power of music, some University of Pennsylvania students are bonding with, teaching and learning lessons from West Philadelphia elementary and high school students.

The University of Pennsylvania’s all-grant aid program provides financial accessibility to an Ivy League education for a broad and diverse student body attracted to the rigorous academic community. Helping students facing the unique challenge of living with a disability is another way Penn is helping break down barriers. 

On four Saturdays this spring, Sharon Thomas has made the hour-long drive from Hatboro to the University of Pennsylvania with a strong sense of urgency and hope.

Two professors from the University of Pennsylvania have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania has named Herman Beavers and the West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance as the recipients of the inaugural Netter Center Faculty-Community Partn