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Netter Center provides summer academic and cultural enrichment
Netter Center enrichment camps helps prevent summer slide For six weeks, from the middle of June through early August, summer camps offered by the Netter Center serve around 400 K-8 students and close to 200 high school students.

Netter Center provides summer academic and cultural enrichment

The Netter Center for Community Partnerships offers six-week summer camps at University-Assisted Community Schools that serve hundreds of Philadelphia schoolchildren.
STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers
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As part of SMASH Wharton, rising 10th graders spend almost the entirety of their summer breaks on Penn’s campus, taking rigorous STEM and business courses.

STEM and business classes mesh for Philadelphia high schoolers

As part of the SMASH Wharton program, 35 students live and breathe college life in the summer, staying for three years in Harnwell College House and taking classes at Huntsman Hall.

Lauren Hertzler

The basics of homebuying with Nicole Hudson Andrews
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The basics of homebuying with Nicole Hudson Andrews

Andrews, manager of Penn Home Ownership Services, works to help University employees purchase homes. In a Q&A, Andrews breaks down the department’s two prominent programs, which offer a closing cost reduction and a forgivable loan.

Lauren Hertzler

Learning from tragedy: How Penn prepares for and responds to emergency situations
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Maureen Rush and her team at Public Safety constantly work to “do everything we can to make sure this environment remains safe.”

Learning from tragedy: How Penn prepares for and responds to emergency situations

Vice president of Public Safety Maureen Rush discusses the University’s emergency preparedness plan, Public Safety personnel training, community education opportunities, and how relationships matter.

Penn Today Staff

Kick back, relax, and enjoy the music
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Kick back, relax, and enjoy the music

For the eighth summer in a row, the Penn Museum will bring live global music—including the sounds of Creole zydeco, Latin jazz, Middle Eastern folk, and pre-revolutionary Cuba—to its outdoor garden courtyard.

Lauren Hertzler

Making an IMPaCT on community health services
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Making an IMPaCT on community health services

Training community members as healthcare liaisons originated as an Innovation Accelerator at Penn, and is now a branded product on the health care market across the country.

Penn Today Staff