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Rising from the ashes of their Linkside home, a Gqeberha couple’s remarkable story of creativity led to the birth of a book, Lockdown Letters, which was launched in Cape Town on Friday.
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 s...
Lockdown Letters has expanded their reach to target all essential workers, after focusing exclusively on health care workers at the start of the pandemic.
These students have helped send more than 13,000 letters to front line workers PHILADELPHIA — Rupa Palanki can still remember the hopelessness she felt when the University of Pennsylvania shut down in-person classes last March due to the pandemic. Palanki, now a 22-year-old Penn senior, had just returned to her hometown of Mobile, Ala., and desperately wanted to help in whatever way she could. She began talking with friends about possible ways to provide community service during the pandemic and the idea for Lockdown Letters, an initiative to send letters of appreciation to front line worke...
19,000 Pa. voters and counting ditch the GOP | Morning Newsletter Ashley Hoffman, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TIM TAI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS From left, University of Pennsylvania junior Joey Lohmann and senior Preethi Kumaran, two of the founders of Lockdown Letters, and senior Jenny Chang, a program ambassador, on the Penn campus in West Philadelphia on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. Good morning from The Inquirer newsroom. First: Roughly 19,000 Pa. voters left the Republican party in the aftermath of the false election fraud claims. Then: COVID-19 has led to a sharp decl...