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Can hedging make you a better communicator?
Two people seated at a desk mid-negotiation.

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Can hedging make you a better communicator?

Hedging can make individuals less persuasive, but new research from Wharton’s Jonah Berger shows how communicators can use hedging to their advantage.

From Knowledge at Wharton

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Running the Cocodona 250 and hiking the Trans Bhutan Trail: This Penn Vet clinician thinks big
Rose Nolen-Walston makes her way through the Cocodona 250.

Penn Vet’s Rose Nolen-Walston makes her way through the Cocodona 250 in May 2026.

(Image: Courtesy of Rose Nolen-Walston)

Running the Cocodona 250 and hiking the Trans Bhutan Trail: This Penn Vet clinician thinks big

Rose Nolen-Walston, a Penn Vet associate professor of large animal internal medicine, has a history of doing hard things. “I didn’t take the conventional path to vet school. I didn’t take the conventional path to running the Cocodona 250.”

From Penn Vet

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When partnership becomes practice
Academy at Penn students visiting a Penn Vet classroom.

Academy at Penn students visit Penn Vet during their summer session.

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When partnership becomes practice

Penn GSE and the School District of Philadelphia are co-creating solutions—in areas from algebra to AI—by listening first, aligning priorities, and turning research into real-time change across an urban school system.

From Penn GSE

2 min. read

How extreme heat affects the economy
A group of construction workers work in the hot sun.

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How extreme heat affects the economy

R. Jisung Park, an environmental and labor economist at the School of Social Policy & Practice, discusses climate change and the impact of extreme heat on academic success and worker productivity.

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How artists have depicted—and shaped—society’s relationship with the sea
Wave painting by Gustave Courbet.

Courbet, Gustave, “Waves.” 1870, oil on canvas.

(Image: Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963-181-21. https://www.philamuseum.org/objects/59527)

How artists have depicted—and shaped—society’s relationship with the sea

In recognition of the summer season and beach vacations, Penn Today spoke with history of art professor Ann Kuttner about ancient Roman portrayals of the sea and Ph.D. student Benjy Jude about 19th-century French seascapes.

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Barbie Zelizer: A career built on asking the right question
Barbie Zelizer

Barbie Zelizer, the Annenberg School for Communication’s Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, is retiring after three decades as a pioneering scholar of journalism studies at Penn.

(Image: Courtesy of Annenberg School for Communication)

Barbie Zelizer: A career built on asking the right question

As the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication retires after three decades, the Annenberg School for Communication and the field itself bear the unmistakable imprint of her work.

From Annenberg School for Communication

2 min. read

Awards for Penn faculty
Fisher Fine Arts library in summer.

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Awards for Penn faculty

The latest awards roundup for faculty in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, Penn Carey Law, and the Perelman School of Medicine.

Penn Today Staff

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Documenting architecture and memories of a changing neighborhood
"On Exactitude in Science (Watts)" showing on screen at the Barnes.

Image: Erica Moser

Documenting architecture and memories of a changing neighborhood

A film by Penn fine arts professor David Hartt about Watts, a historically Black neighborhood in Los Angeles, is one of five videos included in “Freedom Dreams,” an exhibition at the Barnes in Philadelphia that centers the “memories, dreams, and histories of Black Americans.”

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The enduring significance of ‘The Odyssey’
Illustration depicting Homer’s “The Odyssey”

Image: Vanessa Lovegrove, Penn Arts & Sciences

The enduring significance of ‘The Odyssey’

In July, a new adaptation of the famous poem hits the big screen. Three Arts & Sciences faculty members discuss Homer’s epic.

From Omnia

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