10.21
Political intimidation, at-risk media, and the future of journalism: A Q&A with Barbie Zelizer
In the wake of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death, Barbie Zelizer, director of the Center for Media at Risk, discusses how journalists and other digital media practitioners can better prepare for working in today’s climate and why, for that to happen, the media culture needs to shift.
Skin cream use OK’d during radiation therapy
Students, Bush talk political differences and bridging divide
‘Healthy Pequeños’ teaches young children about hygiene, germs, and food safety
The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’
Men’s basketball team picked second in Ivy Preseason Media Poll
Eugene Mele and Charles Kane to share Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
As market concentration goes up, employees’ wages go down
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Rumble, young man, rumble
Breaking tackles with Karekin Brooks, the featured running back on the Penn football team.
The healing word
Deborah Thomas embeds herself in communities stricken by violence to chronicle the humanity revealed during the aftermath.
Educational leaders examine the ‘University of the Future’
“Beyond the Walls: The University of the Future” brought scholars, administrators, and technology experts together to discuss the future of higher education and the disruption of the traditional “brick and mortar” college campus.
Q&A with Marc Meredith: What’s at stake in the midterm elections
The political scientist on the importance of the upcoming midterm elections, and the need to increase voter turnout.
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics design pairs new with old
An expansive contemporary addition compliments and incorporates the adaptive reuse of the circa 1925 Art Deco-style heritage bank building at the corner of 36th and Walnut streets.
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Making gene therapy delivery safer and more efficient
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PennDesign establishes Wilks Family McHarg Center directorship
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs lauds Penn Medicine’s community health worker model
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Why the stock market slip is not a slide
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The Graduate School of Education gets HEARD
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10.21
Halloween Family Fun Day
The 54-acre rural cemetery and garden hosts a free, family-friendly afternoon of Halloween-themed events, like a hunt for spooky books hidden in the cemetery, a pop-up stand from the Mutter Museum, a bird walk, and a pet costume contest judged by students from Penn Vet.
10.23
2018 Mark D. Gordon Lecture
Michael Arceneaux, author of “I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put my Faith in Beyoncé,” a collection of essays, discusses serious topics like marginalization and growing up as a Catholic, black gay man while approaching the discussion with a touch of humor.
Multimedia
Penn brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world
Leveraging the University’s expertise with technology and rare centuries-old manuscripts, Penn Libraries is digitizing and cataloging medieval and early modern texts from 15 Philadelphia-area institutions. The three-year project is known as BiblioPhilly.
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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.
