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Move-In fall 2022 primer
Penn Today offers a practical guide to undergraduates preparing to move into College Housing between Aug. 22 and 28.
Penn COVID-19 Response
Building bridges, locally and abroad
Inflation hits back-to-school shopping
What is it like to be a journalist during the ‘fake news’ era? Not easy
Marrying models with experiments to build more efficient solar cells
A summer internship with Play On Philly
Udai Bhardwaj decriminalized homosexuality in India. Now, he’s coming to Wharton
Deploying microrobotics for dental treatments and diagnostics
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The importance of protecting privacy in a post-Roe world
Annenberg School for Communication professor Jessa Lingel says the Roe v. Wade reversal sends ripples through the privacy world.
Five things to know about the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri
Farah N. Jan, senior lecturer in international relations and political science, discusses what happened, what his killing means for counterterrorism, and the impact it will have on the future of al-Qaida.
Erz promoted to head athletic trainer
Anthony Erz began his career at Penn in 2015 as an assistant athletic trainer and previously worked as head athletic trainer for the football and men’s lacrosse teams.
Inside the Quaker’s head
Sophia Zehler recently earned her master’s degree from the Fels Institute of Government. The first-generation Cuban American also spent the year as Penn’s mascot, her third mascotting position in five years.
‘Trusted messengers’ distill science, debunk myths about COVID-19 vaccine
VaxUpPhillyFamilies, led by Penn’s School of Nursing, engages Philadelphia parents and caregivers as vaccine ambassadors to identify concerns and provide support related to COVID-19 vaccines, increase vaccine uptake, and address social support needs.
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New gift creates the first named professorship in the historic preservation program at Weitzman
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Virtual kindergarten program keeps Philly kids smiling—and sets them up for success
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Design professionals and modernism enthusiasts converge at Weitzman for Docomomo 2022
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New tool measures moral distress in pandemic nursing care
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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future
Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Who, What, Why: Hannah De Oliveira’s study of Japanese American internment
Through a spring Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships grant, rising senior Hannah De Oliveira explored archives across the country to study viewpoints within Japanese American internment camps.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Who, What, Why: Tyra Moore on her commitment to mental health care for Black Americans
The doctoral student in the School of Social Policy & Practice received the Joy Award from the Boris L. Henson Foundation and is writing a dissertation on teen parenting within the foster care system.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
How historical racism influences modern poverty and racial inequality
Sociologist Regina Baker finds that Black people in southern U.S. states with significant institutionalized historical racial practices experience worse poverty today. These states also have a wider poverty gap between Black and white populations.