9.25
With former VP Joe Biden, Penn gets fired up to vote in midterm elections
An afternoon get-out-the-vote effort held at Houston Hall on Tuesday brought together various campus offices and organizations, and elicited a rousing speech from former Vice President Joe Biden.
Penn Engineering groups awarded NSF grants to work toward ‘quantum leap’
Philadelphia Managing Director Michael DiBerardinis to join Fels as Professor of Practice
Is ‘Democracy in Trouble?’
Field hockey comes thisclose to knocking off No. 12 Syracuse
Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center
First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment
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Philadelphia and Meiji Japan symposium marks 150 years of deep ties
Scholars from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, and the Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute celebrate the 150th anniversary of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, and the surprising links between Philadelphia and Japan during a political period that set the island nation on a fast track to modernization.
Growing a ‘culture of cultivation’ on campus
Even on an urban campus, there are numerous places to coax food from the soil. From the Penn Student Garden on Spruce Street to the Penn Park Orchard, Facilities and Real Estate Services staff are expanding opportunities for the community to interact with an edible landscape.
Physicist theorizes that dark matter is a superfluid
A hypothesis by Justin Khoury of the Department of Physics and Astronomy stands to shake up how scientists consider dark matter.
Returning to Vietnam
A child of Vietnamese refugees, David Thai has returned to his family’s homeland as a Fulbright Scholar, where he will teach English at the Hoang Le Kha High School for Gifted Students, in the southwestern region of Vietnam, a few hours from where his mother grew up.
New microscopes will allow researchers to see small and think big
Two high-resolution microscopes will allow researchers to study and test materials at the atomic level with unprecedented precision.
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New article details how courts can address the power imbalance in corporate governance
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Penn Athletics to broadcast record number of live events on NBC Sports Philadelphia
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Professor Jessa Lingel leads zine-making workshop on feminist pedagogy
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Penn Medicine, Grand View Health announce alliance
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Is the next recession around the corner?
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9.25
National Voter Registration Day
Penn Leads the Vote hosts a celebration of National Voter Registration Day, with opportunities to register while grabbing a sandwich and enjoying music and games.
9.26
Acts, Facts, and Artifacts
Marking the launch of Wolf Humanities Center's yearlong theme of “Stuff,” Kevin Young, an award-winning poet, and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at New York Public Libraries, will converse with English and Africana Studies Professor Herman Beavers the material forms of Black culture.
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Working Dog Center
Opened on September 11, 2012, the Penn Vet Working Dog Center serves as a national research and development center for detection dogs.
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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Kroiz exhibit illuminates the abstract in modern Japanese architecture
“Critical Abstractions: Modern Architecture in Japan, 1868-2018,” on display through Sept. 24, challenges prevailing ideas on the reasons behind the international appeal of modern architecture made in Japan.
