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Raymond Tabak: Promoting campus and community safety
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Raymond Tabak: Promoting campus and community safety

Raymond Tabak leads the Medical Emergency Response Team, helping keep Penn and the Philadelphia area safe through outreach, health workshops, and emergency medical care.

From WXPN host to WXPN ambassador: Kathy O’Connell announces retirement
Kathy O’Connell

After four decades, Kathy O’Connell and WXPN’s Kids Corner program are retiring.

(Image: Courtesy of WXPN)

From WXPN host to WXPN ambassador: Kathy O’Connell announces retirement

With O’Connell’s retirement, after four decades on air, the popular children’s program Kids Corner will end in June.

From WXPN

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Cindy Sako: Empowering Philadelphia to learn CPR 
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Cindy Sako: Empowering Philadelphia to learn CPR 

Cindy Sako leads free classes through the Mobile CPR Project, building partnerships throughout Philadelphia to equip community members with CPR skills.

Pennovation Works 2025 Year in Review

Pennovation Works 2025 Year in Review

In 2025, Pennovation Works hosted nine international delegations across four continents, welcomed over 200 students through our Youth, Entrepreneurship, & STEM Initiative, supported the growth and advancement of life sciences, and prioritized the needs of the region’s tech community by serving as a premier hub for AI, tech, and robotics.

America’s first hospital to open museum at Pennsylvania Hospital’s historic Pine Street building
Pennsylvania Hospital exterior.

Since its founding in 1751, Pennsylvania Hospital has been a leader in patient care. Today, it is nationally recognized for programs in neurosurgery, obstetrics and high-risk maternal and fetal services, neonatology, behavioral health, and orthopaedics.

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America’s first hospital to open museum at Pennsylvania Hospital’s historic Pine Street building

Pennsylvania Hospital marks its 275th anniversary with exhibits that connect Penn Medicine’s medical history to modern breakthroughs.

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Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
High school students in a science class.

Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.

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Penn receives national distinction for community engagement

The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.

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A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core
Philadelphia’s Market Street east of City Hall in 1889.

Philadelphia’s Market Street east of City Hall in 1889.

(Image: John Gibb, Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection)

A design fall studio brings interdisciplinary thinking to Philly’s historic and commercial core

Studio Plus design students at Weitzman focused on working through the future of Philadelphia’s Market East neighborhood, and explored issues of historic preservation, urban planning, and housing.

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Health in Philly, past and present
Students standing listening to a person speaking.

Students in Andi Johnson’s course Health in Philly: Past and Present visited the nonprofit organization Bebashi in December to present their findings from interviews with staff.

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Health in Philly, past and present

This fall, in Andi Johnson’s course Health in Philly: Past and Present, students worked closely with leadership of the health-focused nonprofit Bebashi to identify ways they could better support staff, while visiting other local health organizations to learn more about how they address issues facing city residents.

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