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MSW Alumna Reflects on Transformative Year as Penn Women’s Center Director
Last year, Sherisse Laud-Hammond was named the new director of the Penn Women’s Center, a position in which she is...

PSCSW Awards for Clinical Excellence Recognizes PhD Student
Alicia Chatterjee, PhD candidate and MSW graduate at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), recently won a Pennsylvania Society...

SP2 Celebrates 2020 Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees
While the festivities may have been virtual this year, the tenor of the 2020 Penn School of Social Policy &...

DSW Alumna Publishes Innovative Palliative Care Study
Christin Gregory, MSW ‘08, DSW ‘14, at Penn’s School of Policy and Practice (SP2) has published a groundbreaking study in...

Faculty & Research, Alumni Stories
Center for Guaranteed Income Research is Launched
Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI), together with the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) has...

SP2 Grad Advocates for Philly’s LGBTQ Population
As policy fellow with Philadelphia’s Office of LGBT Affairs, Sayeeda Rashid of the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2)...

MSSP Alum Awarded 2020 Bank of America Fellowship
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is a question many can recall hearing throughout childhood. For...

Faculty & Research, Alumni Stories
Working on ‘the Human Side’ of Heritable Cancers
"I love working with people,” says Allison Werner-Lin of the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2). Werner-Lin’s office overlooking Locust Walk is...

MSSP Alumna Named Fulbright Public Policy Fellow
Widely recognized as a prestigious grant that facilitates global learning opportunities, the Fulbright Program is the largest international exchange program...