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Featured Events
Staying Healthy in a Climate Changed World
This expert panel will focus on the challenges that lie ahead for maintaining health amid climate change, how the medical community is preparing, and best practices for managing the risks. Free and open to the Penn community, with healthcare workers strongly encouraged to attend.

Earth Week Culinary Session at Quaker Kitchen
Executive Chef Lucio Palazzo, in collaboration with Penn Park Farm and Penn Sustainability, will showcase cooking with seasonal ingredients and explore Penn’s campus food system. Participants will learn how to factor climate issues into food choices and discover how delicious cooking with local and seasonal ingredients can be.

On a given night Quaker Kitchen serves as many as 200 meals like the Earth Week meal, which included pea puree, pasta carbonara, mushrooms, carrots, and sustainably sourced salmon. “The big message is, if you’re interested in climate change, the choice you make at your dinner table has a big impact,” says Barbara Lea-Kruger, director of communications and external relations for Penn’s Division of Business Services.

In Principle and Practice
Penn’s strategic framework
Penn’s guiding principles are the University’s enduring values and distinctive strengths: anchored, inventive, interwoven, and engaged. The practices support and strengthen Penn’s core educational mission.
At Penn Today, we focus on some of the ways the University is putting this framework into action. From student, faculty, and staff profiles to research updates and event coverage, Penn Today highlights the latest examples of the University’s principled approach to excellence.

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Sweden issues update in China cable cutting probe
Benjamin L. Schmitt of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in the Weitzman School of Design says it is important “to deter future attempts by Russia and China to disrupt Western critical subsea infrastructure, acts which aim to undermine democratic resilience.”