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Penn students walking through Norris Square Neighborhood Project’s community garden.

How food moves around cities

Domenic Vitiello, an urban and regional planning expert, teaches classes that invite students to locations in and around Philadelphia to better understand how its denizens dine.

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Portrait of Xinlan Emily Hu

The mechanics of collaboration

Penn Ph.D. student Xinlan Emily Hu leads a group of budding engineers and social scientists who study communication across teams. The group has developed a new toolkit aimed at helping researchers analyze and measure teamwork.

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9/10

Incantation

Penn Museum exterior
Vocal artist Victoria Hanna performs a mash-up of art, artifacts, and learning, with a set of rare objects on public display. Simcha Gross of the Jewish Studies Program will introduce the culture of demons and spells in the ancient Near East. This performance and talk is presented in partnership with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

9/12

Movable Books Opening

Exterior of Van Pelt Library.
Ellen G. K. Rubin will discuss her collection of pop-up and movable books, in connection with the new Penn Libraries exhibitions The Movement of Books and Material World. She will highlight special objects from her collection of 9,000 pop-up and movable books.

4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, 3420 Walnut St.

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New Student Orientation for the Class of 2028

A roster of events ranging from a primer on Penn traditions to dinner and dancing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to walking tours and introductions prepares students for life on campus.

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Several new Penn students walking into Franklin Field on NSO weekend.
A new Penn student gives two thumbs up on Franklin Field on NSO weekend.
Six people seated on chairs on court at the Palestra on NSO weekend.
a crowd of new Penn students on College Green on NSO weekend.
Two new Penn students in a museum room with many bronze founding fathers statues on NSO weekend.
A new Penn student takes a selfie with a founding fathers statue on NSO weekend.
New Penn students walk through a First Amendment gallery at a museum on NSO weekend.
A fourtet of dancers performing at night in front of the Penn Commons sign on NSO weekend.
A group of new Penn students on a bench in the Philly Art Museum on NSO weekend.
Six new Penn students in front of a Penn step-and-repeat at the Philly Art Musuem.
A school bus letting off new Penn students at the Philly Art Museum on NSO weekend.
A group of new Penn students take a selfie in front of the Philly Art Museum on NSO weekend.
A crowd of new Penn students at the Penn Museum on NSO weekend.
The Quaker mascot on College Green with a crowd of new students on NSO weekend.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

She’s an expert on OCD at Penn. It still took a while to recognize the disorder in her five-year-old son

Emily Becker-Haimes of the Perelman School of Medicine shares how she recognized OCD in her son’s behavioral habits.

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Politico.com

Climate cash pours into election swing region. Will it help Harris?

Danny Cullenward of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the Weitzman School of Design says that capturing methane to make hydrogen is trading a short-lived pollutant for a permanent pollutant in the form of carbon dioxide.

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Politico.com

What the Supreme Court left unsaid about Trump’s criminal immunity

Kate Shaw of Penn Carey Law says that the Supreme Court’s ruling about Donald Trump’s presidential immunity is wrong as a matter of constitutional theory and doesn’t provide anything resembling an administrable test.

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The New York Times

You’ve lost weight taking new obesity drugs. What happens if you stop?

Mitchell A. Lazar of the Perelman School of Medicine says that there’s no “magic bullet” for lowering the dosage of weight-loss medication while keeping the weight off.

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ABC News

Here’s why mortgage rates dropped to their lowest level in more than a year

Lu Liu of the Wharton School says that treasury rates have already incorporated expectations for future interest rate cuts because mortgage rates are priced off current treasury rates.

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Bloomberg Law

Ghosts of bankruptcy’s past haunt bills to address J&J, Purdue

According to David Skeel of Penn Carey Law, there’s a growing perception that insider dominance is leading to abuses in the bankruptcy system.

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HealthDay

Dementia may not be as common among Parkinson’s patients as thought

A study by Daniel Weintraub of the Perelman School of Medicine suggests that dementia is not inevitable with Parkinson’s and is actually less common than presumed.

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New Republic

The bad politics of bad posture

In her book “Slouch,” Beth Linker of the School of Arts & Sciences outlines how societal pressures have driven huge swaths of people to embrace falsehoods about posture.

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The New York Times

Are we happy yet?

Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences says that thinking about life through the lens of moment-to-moment moods is a recipe for depression and anxiety.

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Bloomberg

Fed rate is ‘far too high’ and needs to come down quickly, Jeremy Siegel says

Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School says that the Federal Reserve is in danger of making another policy mistake by being too cautious.

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