10.23
Being well and doing well
Benoit Dubé, the chief wellness officer at Penn, Giang T. Nguyen, executive director of Student Health Service, and Meeta Kumar, deputy executive director of CAPS, discuss Penn’s efforts to strengthen and support the health and wellness of students.
Abramson Cancer Center receives $10.7 million to study CAR T cells in solid tumors
What happens when someone’s skin color and racial identity don’t align?
Women’s soccer one-ups Yale, stays undefeated on the road
With parents and families, Gutmann stresses the ties that bond
Political intimidation, at-risk media, and the future of journalism
Wrestling team grapples on the green
Cuba libre
The Latest
‘Healthy Pequeños’ teaches young children about hygiene, germs, and food safety
Alaina Hall’s project, a 2018 Penn President’s Engagement Prize winner, is already making a difference for a residential childcare home in Miacatlán, Mexico.
Eugene Mele and Charles Kane to share Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
For introducing a new class of materials with unique and useful properties, known as topological insulators, physicists Charles Kane and Eugene Mele will receive the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The award honors “fundamental discoveries…that are transforming our world.”
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.
Inside Penn
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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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10.23
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.
10.30
Change Over Time Dialogue
To commemorate the new Design + Heritage issue of the Change Over Time publication, PennDesign Historic Preservation Professor of Practice Pamela Hawkes will lead a discussion with University of Sydney Senior Lecturer of Architecture Cameron Logan, as well as PennDesign's Scott Erdy and Kiki Bolender.
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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Big Ideas
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.
