HAVEN will use the President's Engagement Prize to launch after-school art, dance, and music programs at a North Philadelphia shelter.
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May 7, 2026
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Fourth-years Chloe Chang, Darlene Leohansson, and Connie Ni (second from left to right) won this year’s President’s Engagement Prize for their project HAVEN, which will launch an after-school program for K-5 children at the Jane Addams shelter in North Philadelphia. Chang hopes children will benefit from art, dance, and music programs: “We’re reimagining the shelter as a place for childhood,” she says.
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The prognosis looked bleak for Maeve, a lamb afflicted with a deadly progressive vascular disorder. But a team of Penn veterinarians and veterinary students devised a life-saving plan to treat Maeve with radiation, an almost unheard-of course of action for a rare condition—and even less common for animals like cattle, sheep, or goats.
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ChiaKo Hung, an expert in nonprofit financial management, equips students in the School of Social Policy & Practice with evidence-based strategies for driving philanthropic impact, a real-world approach informed by his research.
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The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation has awarded 37 grants across six categories in the 2025–26 academic year, from community partnerships and an artist residency to support for independent creative productions.
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Commencement is less than two weeks away, and Penn students are celebrating through campus photoshoots. Share your special moments using #PennGrad to be featured at the ceremony on May 18th.
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Judith Beck of the Perelman School of Medicine says “our brain doesn’t necessarily differentiate between false alarms and true alarms” when talking about why people experience anxiety.
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THROUGH MAY 31
DumoLab Research at the Weitzman School of Design has partnered with Meantime, a project between Weitzman faculty member Brian Phillips and uCity Square, to activate storefronts in West Philadelphia and showcase sustainable architecture from biomaterials. Free and open to the public. Learn about series programming running through the end of May.
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