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Penn COVID-19 Response
‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight
‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight
Yaroub Al-Obaidi, an Iraqi artist and scholar who settled in Philadelphia in 2016, gives Penn Museum visitors an insider’s view of the Middle East Galleries and creates connections with U.S. Iraq War veterans.
Penn COVID-19 Response
In a warming world, chief heat officers help adapt, prepare, and protect
In a warming world, chief heat officers help adapt, prepare, and protect
With frank text and bold illustrations, graphic novel tackles puberty head on
With frank text and bold illustrations, graphic novel tackles puberty head on
Finding a forgotten architect, Philadelphia’s Minerva Parker Nichols
Finding a forgotten architect, Philadelphia’s Minerva Parker Nichols
Update of a local tree field guide offers ‘antidote for plant blindness’
Update of a local tree field guide offers ‘antidote for plant blindness’
A potential strategy to improve T cell therapy in solid tumors
A potential strategy to improve T cell therapy in solid tumors
In-person Models of Excellence ceremony returns in April
In-person Models of Excellence ceremony returns in April
Tony Award-winning actress and singer/songwriter Idina Menzel to speak at Penn’s 267th Commencement
Tony Award-winning actress and singer/songwriter Idina Menzel to speak at Penn’s 267th Commencement
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Penn earns at-large bid to WNIT
Penn earns at-large bid to WNIT
The women’s basketball team will take on Richmond in the first round of the WNIT on Thursday in Virginia.
2022 PIP/PEP winners: Where are they now?
2022 PIP/PEP winners: Where are they now?
Nearly a year after the winners of the President’s Innovation Prize (PIP) and President’s Engagement Prize (PEP) began their projects, a look at how the work of these eight intrepid alumni has evolved.
Dingle named Ivy League Player of the Year
Dingle named Ivy League Player of the Year
The third-year guard put up the second-highest scoring average in the conference in the last 25 years.
The immune system does battle in the intestines to keep bacteria in check
The immune system does battle in the intestines to keep bacteria in check
New research from Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine demonstrates that Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, a relative of the bacterial pathogen that causes plague, triggers the body’s immune system to form lesions in the intestines called granulomas.
Penn’s eight 2023 Thouron Scholars named
Penn’s eight 2023 Thouron Scholars named
Seven fourth-year students and one May graduate have each received a 2023 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
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3/21
Feminist Data Science in Action
Catherine D’Ignazio gives a talk on how grassroots feminist activists are tackling feminicide through data science. It's the topic of her upcoming book, “Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism.”
3/22
Doing Global Media Studies
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication hosts the 2023 biennial fellows’ symposium, featuring panel talks and receptions with experts in communication, film, media, the humanities, and more. The theme is global methods and concepts in the field of communication and media studies. This is a two-day event.
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President Magill around campus
Liz Magill began her duties at the University on July 1. Here’s what she’s been up to most recently.
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Penn’s Undergraduate Class Boards squeezed together for a selfie with President Magill.
President Magill joined University leaders and deans to recognize and spend time with Penn’s Presidential Ph.D. Fellows.
Next to Roy Vagelos, President Magill watched as the final structural beam was raised atop the new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology.
President Magill and Marc Lo of Penn First Plus met with students Victoria Garcia and Ashwarya Devason ahead of the 1vyG Summit, which took place on Penn’s campus.
With Professor André Dombrowski and University Curator Lynn Marsden-Atlass, President Magill previewed the Arthur Ross Gallery’s newest exhibition.
President Magill was greeted by a Penn Vet working dog in training at a special anniversary celebration of the Pottruck Center.
President Magill gained a glimpse into the unique Kelly Writers House.
Unveiled at the beginning of February, President Magill viewed a mural at The ARCH that celebrates Black history.
In New York City, President Magill kicked off the Penn Forward Tour with Trustee Chair Scott L. Bok and hundreds of alumni.
Students from Penn’s Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps chatted with President Magill during a Veterans Day event.
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Big Ideas
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
What statistics are most likely to promote positive actions during a pandemic?
A new study from PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín and research associate Haesung Annie Jung finds that some COVID statistics are more effective than others at encouraging people to change their behavior.
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Flu vaccination rate holds but misinformation about flu and COVID persists
The latest Annenberg Science Knowledge survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center highlights continuing uncertainty about consequential information about the flu, COVID-19, and vaccination.
