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Report looks at referendums on Irish unification
Two green N1 highway signs stacked on top of each other show arrows pointing the way to Belfast in the top sign and the way to Dublin in the bottom sign, with Belfast to the left and Dublin to the right

A group of experts have issued a report on what would need to happen for a referendum on Irish unification to be fair and feasible.

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    • Report looks at referendums on Irish unification

    A dozen experts, including Penn’s Brendan O’Leary, lay a framework for how any future unification vote can be fair and feasible.

    Kristen de Groot

    Urban planning and politics in Atlanta
    A black and white image of high-rise buildings collapsing in a cloud of dust

    The 1972 demolition of the St. Louis, Missouri urban housing projects known as Pruitt-Igoe less than 20 years after their completion in 1956 illustrates the lack of maintenance given to public housing in the United States. 

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    • Urban planning and politics in Atlanta

    Akira Rodríguez’s new book, “Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing” explores how the intersection of race and public housing development planning in Atlanta created a politics of resistance.

    Kristina García

    Turmoil in Ethiopia, explained
    Ethiopian refugees, mostly women and children from the Tigray region, sit and lay on blankets on a dirt floor, as some blankets and clothing hang on a clothesline behind them.

    Thousands of people, mainly women and children displaced by conflict in the western Tigray region, stay in Mai Tsebri town under crowded conditions on March 18, 2021. (Image: UNICEF Ethiopia)

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    • Turmoil in Ethiopia, explained

    Demisse Selassie, a Penn Law student and Perry World House Graduate Associate, shares his take on the ongoing violence in Tigray.

    Kristen de Groot

    The world according to Walter Palmer
    Wearing a suit and tie, Walter Palmer stands outside of Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice with his hands in his pockets.
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    • The world according to Walter Palmer

    The educator, organizer, and alumnus discusses his six decades of activism, growing up in the Black Bottom, studying and teaching at Penn, his work at CHOP, the student strike of 1967, the Vietnam War, Frank Rizzo, Donald Trump, school choice, gun violence, the Chauvin trial, and why he thinks racism should be declared a national public health crisis.
    A link between gun violence on TV and firearm deaths
    A hand holding a television remote, pointed at a blurry TV straight ahead. On the TV are many colored boxes signifying many show options.
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    • A link between gun violence on TV and firearm deaths

    Research from Annenberg Public Policy Center’s Daniel Romer and Patrick E. Jamieson found that gun use on television doubled from 2000 to 2018, rising in parallel with the proportion of homicides from firearms in the U.S. during the same period.

    Michele W. Berger , Michael Rozansky

    A ‘human-focused approach’ to sustainability
    Nina Morris against the backdrop of an urban farm

    Nina Morris, Penn's sustainability director, hopes to engage more members of the campus community by “meeting people where they are, showing up to support them and their interests, and then finding out how their passions connect to sustainability.”

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    • A ‘human-focused approach’ to sustainability

    Sustainability Director Nina Morris, who started at Penn in October, aims to build on the University’s strengths in creating a more sustainable campus and community.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Penn’s goal of achieving net-zero emissions within the endowment
    Facade of a Penn Campus building from the ground view with a blue sky.
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    • Penn’s goal of achieving net-zero emissions within the endowment

    Penn’s goal of achieving net-zero emissions within the endowment. The Office of Investments has established the goal of reducing the net greenhouse gas emissions from Penn’s endowment investments to zero by 2050.

    Dee Patel

    Exploring the future of higher education
    A masked student looks up while working on a laptop

    A new book, "Higher Education's response to the COVID-19 Pandemic," looks to build a more resilient and just education system. 

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    • Exploring the future of higher education

    A new book co-edited by the Netter Center’s Ira Harkavy considers the various responses of universities to the pandemic, with the goal of building more sustainable and democratic societies.

    Kristina García

    Alumna Jessica Vaughn examines workplace space and culture in ICA solo exhibition
    Artist standing in gallery in front of an illustration painted on the wall of people running a race

    Artist and Weitzman School of Design alumna Jessica Vaughn examines the spaces, architecture, and cultures of the American workplace her first major solo exhibition, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

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    • Alumna Jessica Vaughn examines workplace space and culture in ICA solo exhibition

    Artist and Weitzman School of Design alumna Jessica Vaughn examines the spaces and culture of the American workplace in her first major solo exhibition, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art.