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A financial boost from Penn to help one of West Philly’s most important corridors

The University has contributed $100,000 to The Enterprise Center to help restore businesses along 52nd Street.

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A new public safety review and outreach initiative launches

Penn launches a public safety review and outreach initiative that seeks to conduct a comprehensive review and outreach program to assess Penn’s success in creating a physically and emotionally safe environment.

Hair Vyce Studio, at 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue.

In time of need, emergency funding for a community in crisis

Since the pandemic began, the University has approved and dispersed $5 million in emergency financial support to employees, third-party contractors, and neighboring businesses and organizations.

Interior of Fisher Fine Arts building, looking out the window to Locust Walk at the landing of the indoor staircase

A virtual tour of architectural masterpieces

David Brownlee, Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Art in the School of Arts and Sciences, leads a virtual tour of some of Penn’s best-known historic buildings.

Penn Medicine workers in scrubs and protective face masks kneel on Franklin Field, one holds a sign that reads White Coats for Black Lives

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Hundreds of health care workers remembered George Floyd and other victims of police violence at a White Coats for Black Lives event at Franklin Field.

Sealed official mail-in ballot in an open mailbox

Creating a civics curriculum with Philly students that can be taught online or in person

A research course on community engagement had been collaborating with Philadelphia teachers to create a curriculum about the importance of voting. Then the classroom experience moved online.

Writing on a whiteboard reading: Check-in, what are you seeing? What are you feeling? Question of the day: What needs to change? How can we create this change? Reminders: Be there. Reach out.

Educators should have the ‘hard conversation’ with students about events unfolding

Penn GSE’s Sigal Sigal Ben-Porath has guidance for educators on how to address the protests across the U.S. and the world with students at this crucial time.

A health care worker in personal protective gear swabs a person in a vehicle at a drive-up COVID testing site.

At a community health center, doctors offer COVID testing—and screening for depression

The Sayre Health Center in West Philadelphia is including anxiety and depression screening with COVID-19 testing, a necessity for a population especially at risk for both.

Junior Paul Lin named a 2020 Udall Scholar

Junior Paul Lin, an earth science major in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been selected as a 2020 Udall Scholar.

Costumed student feeds cloth through a sewing machine as five others look on

High school meets business with Bridges 2 Wealth

Bridges 2 Wealth, a financial literacy program that celebrated its one-year anniversary with the Netter Center in February, collaborates with Penn students and Philadelphia schools to close the wealth gap.

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