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Cookbook features tasty recipes from campus chefs
Plate of food with fried fish, crab pie, butter biscuit, broccoli, and tomatoes.

Cookbook features tasty recipes from campus chefs

Members of the Penn culinary staff have recently released a cookbook, “The Penn Family Cookbook,” with some of their favorite family recipes.

Dee Patel

Day after day, a goal to improve digital inclusion
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Day after day, a goal to improve digital inclusion

As technology continues to flourish, there’s always the need for someone to ensure it is, indeed, accessible for all. That is precisely Kara Gaulrapp’s role at Penn.

Lauren Hertzler

Picturing the future Lehigh Valley
defunct factory with green Lehigh Valley in background

Picturing the future Lehigh Valley

Penn Praxis is a Design Partner with the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission, along with a team of Design Fellows, to design a 25-year plan for the region called Future LV for ecological health and quality of life in cities, towns, and undeveloped areas.

Penn Today Staff

The McGraw Prize partners with Penn GSE to celebrate education changemakers
Five people sit on a stage in discussion with an audience in front, on projection on wall behind them reads The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education

Past McGraw Prize in Education winners, from left, Sarita Brown, Alberto Carvalho, Christine Cunningham, and Chris Lehmann, discuss sustaining innovation in education with Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman.

The McGraw Prize partners with Penn GSE to celebrate education changemakers

Since 1988, the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education has honored innovators who are transforming teaching and learning. Penn GSE is now the new home of the prize, partnering with the McGraw family.

Penn Today Staff

A hallmark year in voting history
a flag with three horizontal stripes with the words Votes for Women in the center

A vintage suffrage banner from the early 20th century. (Image: Birmingham Museums Trust)

  • Q&A

    • A hallmark year in voting history

    This year marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment as well as the bicentennial of Susan B. Anthony’s birth. Penn experts reflect on Anthony’s legacy and voting rights today.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Archive of pioneering author and artist comes to Penn Libraries
    Ashley Bryan gestures with his hands open at a library at an elementary school reading his books to children seated on the ground.

    Archive of pioneering author and artist comes to Penn Libraries

    The collection of Ashley Bryan’s work includes thousands of pieces of art, correspondence, photos, manuscripts, and books. A small exhibition of his collection is now on display at the Libraries, and a major symposium and exhibition are expected in 2022.

    Louisa Shepard

    The inaugural Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement fellowship cohort
    Two men stand in front of the brick and stone stairway leading to the Penn Museum

    Paul Wolff Mitchell (left) and Michael Vazquez (right) are the inaugural Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows.

    The inaugural Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement fellowship cohort

    The Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement fellowship supports scholarship and civic engagement in West Philadelphia. Paul Wolff Mitchell, an anthropology doctoral student, and Michael Vazquez, a philosophy doctoral student, are the inaugural cohort.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Training athletes to save lives
    a student performs chest compressions on a mannequin on the floor of a gymnasium, large University of Pennsylvania banner hangs on the far wall in the background.

    Training athletes to save lives

    A Penn tennis player spearheads a program to certify all student athletes in CPR. It’s the first of its kind at any college or university in the country.

    Dee Patel

    The healing power of music
    david falcone playing guitar with balloons in the background Monica Trent, left, a patient at HUP, listens as guitarist David Falcone plays the chords of a familiar rock song.

    The healing power of music

    WXPN celebrates 15 years of its Musicians On Call volunteer program, which has brought music to more than 100,000 patients in Philadelphia hospitals.