20 Penn students and recent graduates awarded Fulbright grants Penn Fulbright grant recipients for 2021-22 include 12 graduating seniors, six graduate students and two recent graduates. Pictured left to right (top row) Daisy Angeles, Robyn Barrow, Saxon Bryant, Youvin Chung, Gabriel DeSantis, Megan Everts; (middle row) Samuel Goldstein, Maria Kovalchuk, Andreas Nolan, Caleb Oh, Neelima Paleti, Bhavana Penmetsa; (bottom row) John Sigmier, Claire Sliney, Marion Standefer, Edward Stevens IV, Judith Weston, Andrew Zheng. Not pictured: Rhina Allende and a student who asked to remain anonymous.
Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been awarded Fulbright grants for the 2021-22 academic year, including 12 graduating seniors, six graduate students, and two recent graduates. They will conduct research, pursue graduate degrees, or teach English in Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, Sout
On top of Philly news Remains of children killed in MOVE bombing sat in a box at Penn Museum for decades
Where are they now, and who is responsible for them? No one seems to know.
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No one seems to be sure what happened to a set of remains thought to be two children killed in the 1985 MOVE bombing.
For decades, the bones were kept at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A Penn Museum spokesperson said the remains have since been transferred to the care of researchers at Princeton but an administrator at the New Jersey university was uncertain of their whereabouts. After this story published, a spokesperson said Princeton does not have them.
at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has partnered with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and the Black Doctor’s COVID-19 Consortium to encourage children age 12 and older to get vaccinated. Four upcoming vaccine clinics will have exciting and teen-friendly activities and themes to encourage teens to come get vaccinated.
CHOP Clinical Nurse Sophia Collins and Philly Teen Vaxx Ambassador Angely were on Good Day Philadelphia to discuss their personal experiences with COVID-19 and Philly Teen Week.
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Almost half of Philadelphia’s firefighters and police have skipped the COVID-19 vaccines, unions say
Updated May 12, 2021;
Posted May 12, 2021
Members of the U.S. Armed Forces gather before a FEMA community vaccination center opens on March 2, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images/TNS)TNS
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PHILADELPHIA Nearly half of Philadelphia’s fire and police workers are unvaccinated despite being eligible to receive the shot for months, according to unions representing both groups.
Philadelphia Firefighters Local 22, which represents about 2,800 firefighters and EMTs, reported 51% of its members have been vaccinated. The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Five reported 3,562 members have been vaccinated, more than half the force. The union did not offer any demographic breakdowns of that number and was not able to distinguish between officers and civilian employees.
Mayor Jim Kenney said he learned Tuesday afternoon that Farley inappropriately approved the cremation and disposal of the MOVE victims remains in 2017 without notifying the Africa family. The Philadelphia Medical Examiner s Office had held onto the remains in the decades since the bombing and brought them to the attention of the health department.
Kenney said his administration was unaware of what transpired, but would have handled the situation differently had he been informed that the remains were located in storage.
The city has hired the lawfirm Dechert to conduct an investigation into the issue. It will seek to determine how many MOVE bombing victims were cremated in 2017 and the circumstances that informed Farley s decision not to consult surviving relatives.