Awards 2022 Provost's Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows
The Netter Center is pleased to announce the 2022 Provost's Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows: 
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Joyce Kim, PhD candidate, Higher Education, Graduate School of Education (Advisor: Amalia Daché)
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Laura Ogburn, PhD candidate, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership, Graduate School of Education ( Advisor: Rand Quinn)
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Erin Purvis, PhD student, Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine Biomedical Graduate Studies (Advisor: Lori Flanagan-Cato)
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.
Joyce Kim plans to design and teach an ABCS course that critically examines how the university can be a site of social change, particularly through activism that focuses on solidarity across various racial and ethnic communities in Philadelphia. Laura Ogburn plans to design and teach an ABCS course on education reform, in which Penn students and Philadelphia public school students collaborate to propose solutions to educational issues they identify and address questions about whose expertise matters in conversations about education. Erin Purvis plans to design and teach an ABCS course for Biomedical Graduate Students, in which they facilitate hands-on engagement with Paul Robeson High School students, develop science education policy proposals, and critically reflect on the connection between local engagement and Penn’s academic research. Additionally, she plans to lay the groundwork for a Community Engagement Graduate Certificate.
See the announcement in the Netter Center May newsletter and learn more on the PGAEF webpage.
