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How ideologically divided is the American public?
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    • How ideologically divided is the American public?

    The Polarization Research Lab, a new initiative from Annenberg’s Yphtach Lelkes and colleagues at Dartmouth and Stanford, will work to answer that question through surveys and partnerships with community organizations.

    Michele W. Berger

    An international effort to curb provider burnout and improve patient care
    Scene of a hospital lobby. Most people are blurry, but two are clear, a person in a lab coat talking to a person in scrubs.
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    • An international effort to curb provider burnout and improve patient care

    In a Q&A, Penn Nursing’s Linda Aiken describes how a hospital earning Magnet designation creates a better, safer experience for patients and clinicians, plus the push to expand such credentialing beyond the U.S.

    Michele W. Berger

    On book bans and free speech
    Sigal Ben-Porath in conversation at the Graduate School of Education

    Sigal Ben-Porath is a professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education, in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division. She studies the ways institutions like schools and colleges can sustain and advance democracy.  

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    • On book bans and free speech

    Sigal Ben-Porath of the Graduate School of Education says book bans and challenges affect free speech and expression, especially for young people, and that institutions of higher education are important for developing tools based on evidence for assessment.
    How to improve accessibility and digital inclusion
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    • How to improve accessibility and digital inclusion

    Tonya Bennett discusses a recent accessibility awareness panel discussion where higher education leaders focused on physical and digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people worldwide with disabilities and impairments.

    Dee Patel

    Cultural representations in films
    Maori amidst foliage
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    • Cultural representations in films

    In partnership with BlackStar Projects, Maori Karmael Holmes of Penn Live Arts curates films to uplift the work of Black, brown, and Indigenous artists.

    Anna Chen

    Dorothy Roberts on the future of abortion advocacy
    A crowd of people gathered, one holds a sign that reads ABORTION IS ESSENTIAL.

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    • Dorothy Roberts on the future of abortion advocacy

    Dorothy Roberts speaks with Penn Today on the implications of the Dobbs decision, which struck down Roe v. Wade, leaving many states with no legal right to abortion.

    Kristina García

    Mentorship strategies to boost diversity in paleontology
    Scientists Erynn Johnson and Aja Carter use a 3D printer to make shell shapes

    Erynn Johnson and Aja Carter both earned their doctoral degrees in paleontology from Penn, employing pioneering techniques, such as 3D printing to replicate the forms of ancient creatures. In a new publication, they share advice for attracting and retaining students and trainees from underrepresented groups to paleontology. 

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    • Mentorship strategies to boost diversity in paleontology

    Drawing on research as well as their experiences as women of color in paleontology, Aja Carter and Erynn Johnson, who earned doctoral degrees from Penn, coauthored a paper offering advice for making the field more inclusive.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Examining experimental print in ‘Cut/Copy/Paste’
    Whitney Trettien standing in a stairwell.

    Whitney Trettien, assistant professor of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, has just published her first book, "Cut/Copy/Paste." 

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    • Examining experimental print in ‘Cut/Copy/Paste’

    In her first book, Whitney Trettien of the School of Arts & Sciences experiments with printed and digital assets while examining bookwork from the 17th and 18th centuries.
    What defines judicial activism? Not being an activist, says Kermit Roosevelt
    The nine current U.S. Supreme Court justices.

    Members of the Supreme Court: Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (Image: Erin Schaff/AP Images)

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    • What defines judicial activism? Not being an activist, says Kermit Roosevelt

    The David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice at Penn Carey Law explains judicial activism in a historical sense, and how justices today interpret the Constitution and federal and state policies.