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Carbon capture and common misconceptions: A Q&A with Joe Romm
Aerial landscape view of a large coal fired power plant with storage tanks for Biofuel burning instead of coal

Joe Romm, a senior research fellow in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, has recently published two papers on carbon dioxide removal and bioenergy carbon capture and will be keynoting American University’s Third Annual Conference on Carbon Dioxide Removal Law & Policy: Carbon Removal Deployment: Law and Policy from Planning to Project.

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Carbon capture and common misconceptions: A Q&A with Joe Romm

In a conversation with Penn Today, Joe Romm casts a sobering light on “solutions” to curb climate change.
The philosophy of pregnancy
Maja Sidzińska.

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The philosophy of pregnancy

Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Maja Sidzińska is working to fill a gap in philosophy of science scholarship about what individuality means.
Coca-Cola in Africa
Sara Byala portrait and book cover for Bottled How Coca-Cola Became African by Sara Byala

Sara Byala, a senior lecturer in creative writing and associate director of the Penn Global Documentary Institute, is the author of a new book, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African." 

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Coca-Cola in Africa

A new book by Sara Byala of the School of Arts & Sciences examines the century-long history of Coca-Cola and its local social, commercial, and environmental impact in Africa.
A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work
Two men and three women sit at desks with typwriters, rotary dial phones and desk calendars in an office in the 1950s.

Workers in Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., in 1959.

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A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work

Penn economists Jere Behrman, who overlapped with Goldin during her time at Penn, and Petra Todd, whose students have been motivated by Goldin’s work, talk about the importance of her research. 

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Marking a monumental death
A person is shown holding a photo of Mahsa Amini, a woman who was killed in police custody in Iran in 2022.

A portrait of Mahsa Amini held during a rally Oct. 1, 2022 calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran’s morality police.

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Marking a monumental death

In honor of the first anniversary of the killing of Mahsa (Jîna) Amini in Iran and the subsequent outpouring of protest, Penn will host a two-day conference on violence against women.

Kristen de Groot

This season’s flu and COVID-19 vaccines
Four bottles of Influenza vaccine beside one medical syringe.

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This season’s flu and COVID-19 vaccines

Judith A. O’Donnell of the Perelman School of Medicine answers common questions about this year’s flu shot and the new COVID-19 vaccines.

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Shifting the climate narrative
The sky glows yellow and purple after a strong summer storm in Philly.

On Sept. 12, PBS, WHYY, and the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media are set to gather a group of community leaders, journalists, science communicators, and scientists to explore the role of storytelling in climate change education.

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Shifting the climate narrative

In a Q&A with Penn Today, Michael Mann of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media shares his views on the role of storytelling in the fight against climate change.