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“The challenges that schools are facing go well beyond the schoolhouse, and the opportunity to collaborate with Nursing and SP2 was an important way to address the multiple challenges facing children and their families.” — Dean of Penn GSE Pam Grossman

Philly native Samantha Rise is one of six Black musicians who participated in a week-long residency program at WXPN to reflect, learn, and celebrate the role of Black history in Americana music.

Doctoral student and Philadelphia Writing Project scholar Barrett Rosser is expanding the notion of literacy and helping young Black women express self-love, build community and foster their identities at the same time.

With support from grants and the Netter Center, the Andrew Hamilton School in Cobbs Creek is now home to a food forest and a thriving garden, providing healthy produce, green space, stormwater management, and educational opportunities.

Together, Penn undergraduate students and Philly school students get hands-on engineering experience in a fast-paced year long weekend program.

From taking urgent asylum cases to advocating for foster children, students use their knowledge to help Philadelphians.

WXPN Musicians On Call brings music to the people who need it most: hospital patients.

Gun violence happens most in places that bear the brunt of generations of inequity. An Emergency Medicine physician and researcher says that if Black lives really matter, we must invest in Black neighborhoods.

Over its ten year history, University City District’s Skills Initiative has trained more than 1,500 residents for career-ladder positions with local employers.

A $365 million development will expand the life sciences hub at Pennovation Works.