‘Communities for Childbirth’ in action 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.
The Sachs Program announces 2023 grants nocred The Sachs Program announces 2023 grants Now in its sixth year of supporting creative practice at Penn and in the surrounding community, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation announced grants totaling $170,000 at its annual Sachs Grants Awards ceremony.
Aiming high with McCaleigh Marr Image: Eric Sucar Aiming high with McCaleigh Marr The fourth-year gymnast discusses her love of gymnastics and her record-setting career at Penn.
A time to celebrate for inaugural SNF Paideia Fellows nocred A time to celebrate for inaugural SNF Paideia Fellows The first cohort of fellows is set to graduate, taking with them the pillars of the SNF Paideia Program—dialogue, citizenship, service, and wellness—on their next life adventures.
Understanding the decline in racial disparities in COVID Image: iStockPhoto / AlexLinch Understanding the decline in racial disparities in COVID The School of Arts & Sciences’ Irma Elo and Samuel Preston, with a collaborative team of researchers, assessed racial disparities in U.S. COVID-19 deaths, calling for continued efforts to better understand and implement targeted strategies for addressing health inequalities.
2023 Projects for Progress recipients announced nocred 2023 Projects for Progress recipients announced Three interdisciplinary teams of faculty, staff, and students at Penn will be awarded up to $100,000 each to grow their respective initiatives.
To spread important messages about teen mental health, make community connections Image: Eric Sucar To spread important messages about teen mental health, make community connections After creating memes and TikToks with Philly high schoolers, Jeffrey Fishman’s honors thesis explores how those messages can effectively reach their audience.
Social conformity in pandemics: How our behaviors spread faster than the virus itself Subway train passengers with protective masks on a station platform in Sofia, Bulgaria in June 2020. (Image: iStock/JordanSimenov) Social conformity in pandemics: How our behaviors spread faster than the virus itself Researchers led by former postdoc Bryce Morsky and Erol Akçay of the School of Arts & Sciences have produced a model for disease transmission that factors in the effects of social dynamics, specifically, how masking and social distancing are affected by social norms.
Remembering Harry Belafonte Harry Belafonte speaking for peace and against nuclear weapons in 1981 in Bonn, Germany. (Image: Klaus Rose/AP Images) Remembering Harry Belafonte Tukufu Zuberi describes meeting the musician-turned-activist, plus how Belafonte used his talents for good and what legacy he leaves behind.
Beyond the pipette and the stethoscope, students explore biology’s societal impacts Health equity was the focus of Stanford’s talk in the Levin building. nocred Beyond the pipette and the stethoscope, students explore biology’s societal impacts The new Biology and Society course, supported by SNF Paideia, gave biology majors the chance to explore how scientists must contend with subjects such as health equity and vaccine hesitancy.