Grants & Awards 2020 Provost's Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows

The Netter Center is pleased to announce three new Provost's Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows: Photo of three women (recipients) and Netter Center logo

  • Abigail Dym, joint PhD student in Political Science and Education (PGAEF advisor: Michael Delli Carpini)

  • Ava Kikut, PhD student in Annenberg (PGAEF advisor: Robert Hornik)

  • Sophie Maddocks, PhD student in Annenberg; (PGAEF advisor: Julia Ticona)

 

The Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowship at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships (PGAEF @ NC) is a two year fellowship open to PhD students across all schools and fields at Penn. Fellows are outstanding students whose scholarship significantly involves Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) and related activities, including locally based community problem-solving, engaged scholarship, service learning, and learning by teaching in public schools. The Fellowship involves participation in an interdisciplinary faculty-student seminar on community-engaged research and teaching, a research fund for each Fellow of $5,000 over the two years, support to attend and present at conferences, and a full fellowship in the students’ second year to continue studies and/or work on their dissertation.

As Provost Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows at the Netter Center, these students will both build on existing work with local public schools and, through the fellowship, will design and teach new Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) seminars. Ms. Dym intends to develop an ABCS course in which Penn students will partner with Philadelphia high school students on activities designed to help them gain experience with survey research and strengthen their political knowledge. Ms. Kikut will develop an ABCS course that brings Penn students into partnership with middle and high school students in Philadelphia to design and evaluate a public health campaign. Ms. Maddocks plans to develop an ABCS course in which Penn undergraduates and local high school students will co-develop a collection of "digital rights" resources to promote young people's prosocial, safe, and critical engagement online. 

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