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Penn Vet students helping animals and their owners in Thailand
Allison Oakes examining a cat.

Allison Oakes examines a cat at the Bangkok clinic.

(Image: Claire Clemens)

Penn Vet students helping animals and their owners in Thailand

This summer, 14 students from the School of Veterinary Medicine traveled to Thailand to spay and neuter cats and dogs for owners who would otherwise be unable to afford the procedures.

Liana F. Wait

Black Law Student Association: Serving Black communities across the globe
Members of Penn’s BLSA in Ghana.

Image: Penn Carey Law

Black Law Student Association: Serving Black communities across the globe

The Penn Carey Law BLSA members have been traveling to and working in Ghana since the early 2000s. This year, BLSA worked with partner law firm B&P establishing and growing the firm’s pro bono practice.

From Penn Carey Law

‘Communities for Childbirth’ in action
Image of a brick building with signs out front pointing to "Antenatal MCH, Labour ward PNC, YCC, Pharmacy, Laboratory, OPD"

A Ugandan health center, August 2022.

(Image: Seungwon “Lucy” Lee)

‘Communities for Childbirth’ in action

President Engagement Prize winner and  fourth-year Seungwon ‘Lucy’ Lee is creating a coordinated referral system of first responders, emergency dispatchers, and systemized hospital networks to improve emergency maternal health care in Uganda.

Kristina García

Thabo Lenneiye on PennPraxis, global outreach, and cross-discipline collaboration
Thabo Lenneiye on Penn’s campus.

Managing director of PennPraxis Thabo Lenneiye.

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Thabo Lenneiye on PennPraxis, global outreach, and cross-discipline collaboration

The new managing director of The Weitzman School’s PennPraxis is a Penn alum who has worked for years on complex mixed-use development and urban planning projects and spearheading DEI initiatives.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Guy Grossman offers a model for refugee hosting
Guy Grossman.

Guy Grossman, political science professor in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences.

(Image: Courtesy of OMNIA)

Guy Grossman offers a model for refugee hosting

The political science professor investigates the effects of Uganda’s refugee-hosting reforms on preventing public backlash.

From Omnia

First UN Water Conference in four decades includes a delegation from Penn
Four panelists sit at table listening while one speaks into microphone

Rohit Aggarwala of the NYC Environmental Protection underscored that managing for drought necessitates cross-border cooperation. “If we think of this as a zero-sum game, we’re going to lose,” he said.

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First UN Water Conference in four decades includes a delegation from Penn

Events on campus last week kicked off the global proceedings, which will include representatives from the Water Center at Penn, Penn Carey Law School, and the School of Arts & Sciences.

Katherine Unger Baillie

‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight
Yaroub Al-Obaidi stands in front of a sign reading Middle East Galleries inside the Penn Museum.

Yaroub Al-Obaidi is a Global Guide at the Penn Museum’s Middle East Galleries.

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‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight

Yaroub Al-Obaidi, an Iraqi artist and scholar who settled in Philadelphia in 2016, gives Penn Museum visitors an insider’s view of the Middle East Galleries and creates connections with U.S. Iraq War veterans.

Kristen de Groot

A new role for NATO in conflict zones
A damaged area in Mosul. Image: Gina Haney

A view of Mosul following attacks on the city by ISIS. Image: Gina Haney

(Image: Gina Haney)

A new role for NATO in conflict zones

One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, PIK Professor Lynn Meskell calls on the alliance to take a more expansive view of cultural property protection.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Understanding India’s urban future
khandela city streets

An unpaved road in Khandela. Most small towns have poor-quality roads, Thachil says. “They need everything.”

(Image: Tariq Thachil)

Understanding India’s urban future

A two-year project supported by Penn Global and the Center for the Advanced Study of India takes a deep dive into the political workings of India’s rapidly urbanizing landscape.

Kristina García

The future of health research in Malawi
Four peple standing, posing for the camera. Three are students at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences. The fourth is a professor there, Adamson Muula.

Adamson Muula (second from left), a professor of public health & epidemiology at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, and students.

(Image: Courtesy of Young Researchers Forum Malawi and KUHeS Research Support Center)

The future of health research in Malawi

A workshop convened by Penn, University College Dublin, and the Young Researchers Forum in Malawi brought together stakeholders to discuss the African nation’s use of technology in health care and the double burden of non-communicable and infectious diseases.

Michele W. Berger