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Nine questions for Penn’s ninth president
Liz Magill
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    • Nine questions for Penn’s ninth president

    Liz Magill shares insights about her scholarship and her background, what excites her about living in Philadelphia, why she is inspired by the Penn community, and more.

    Penn Today Staff

    Can China stop climate change?
    Scott Moore sitting on a bench Scott Moore, director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives, pictured along Locust Walk.
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    • Can China stop climate change?

    In a political science course and new book, Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives Scott Moore unfurls the layers of China’s approach to sustainability and technology.
    Children younger than 5 eligible for COVID-19 vaccines
    An adult wearing a mask squatting next to a child wearing a mask at the end of a slide on an outdoor playground.
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    • Children younger than 5 eligible for COVID-19 vaccines

    In a Q&A, Lori Handy of Penn Medicine and CHOP discusses what it means now that this final group can get protection, plus offers recommendations for families with concerns about doing so.

    Michele W. Berger

    Parental nicotine use and addiction risk for children
    A put-out cigarette standing on its end, next to half of another crumpled cigarette. In the background are two whole cigarettes.
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    • Parental nicotine use and addiction risk for children

    In research done using rats, Penn Nursing’s Heath Schmidt and colleagues found that males that engaged in voluntary nicotine use had offspring more likely to do so, too. Some offspring also developed impaired memory and anxiety-like behavior.

    Michele W. Berger

    Regular folks in the Roman Empire
    Kim Bowes and the cover of her book The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 with an illustration of a small wooden house in the country with a tree

    Kimberly Bowes, archaeologist, classical studies professor, and director of the Integrated Studies Program, focuses not on the elite during the Roman Empire, but on the lived experience of the working poor and the economies that dominated their lives. Bowes has received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to expand her research.

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    • Regular folks in the Roman Empire

    Kimberly Bowes of the School of Arts & Sciences focuses on the lived experience of the Roman Empire’s working poor and the economies that dominated their lives 2,00 years ago.
    Urging caution but not panic on monkeypox
    microscopic view of monkeypox virus

    In the last few weeks, an outbreak of monkeypox, a relative of smallpox, has affected nearly 100 people across 12 countries.

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    • Urging caution but not panic on monkeypox

    While unfamiliar to many in the U.S., monkeypox and other poxviruses have been on the radar of researchers at the School of Dental Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine for decades.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Talking admissions with Whitney Soule
    Whitney Soule.

    Whitney Soule, vice provost and dean of admissions. (Image: Lisa Godfrey)

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    • Talking admissions with Whitney Soule

    As vice provost and dean of admissions, Soule is challenged daily with thinking strategically about undergraduate enrollment at Penn—from recruitment to application processes and all that goes into admitting a class, to how financial aid and retention fits into the mix.

    Lauren Hertzler

    A Wharton initiative championing global change
    Screen shot of virtual meeting with various people on camera and some off-camera.

    The Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, Penn, and its many partners issued a call for proposals for an initiative: Building Capacity to Combat COVID-19 in Africa: Ideas and Innovations from Young Entrepreneurs. (Image: Ideas for Action, The Wharton School)

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    • A Wharton initiative championing global change

    The Ideas for Action Wharton undergraduate student club is a joint initiative with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research to engage youth around the world in developing solutions to global challenges.

    Dee Patel

    Climate resilience, economic competitiveness, and equity at the megaregional level
    portraits of fritz steiner and bob yaro alongside the cover of their book with a map of the united states and the title megaregions and america's future

    In a Q&A about their new book “Megaregions and America’s Future,” Dean Frederick Steiner (left) and Emeritus Professor of Practice Robert Yaro of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design discuss how megaregions in the U.S. can address complex challenges.

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    • Climate resilience, economic competitiveness, and equity at the megaregional level

    In “Megaregions and America’s Future,” Emeritus Professor of Practice Robert Yaro and Dean Frederick Steiner discuss how megaregions in the U.S. can address complex challenges.

    Erica K. Brockmeier