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School of Arts & Sciences
Election night takeaways
Election night takeaways
Political scientist Marc Meredith and PORES director Stephanie Perry, who both worked on NBC’s Decision Desk on Election Night with more than a dozen Penn undergrads, share their thoughts on what Tuesday’s results could mean for 2024.
A striking soccer story, starring Stas Korzeniowski
A striking soccer story, starring Stas Korzeniowski
The third-year forward discusses the mind of a striker, America’s growing soccer culture, his first-year to second-year jump, competing in semi-pro ball, playing injured, and what he enjoys about the beautiful game.
A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election
A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election
Penn Leads the Vote was on hand at the Houston Hall polling location, one of several polling places on campus where voters made their voices heard for the 2023 general election.
Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history
Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history
New hires like Marcia Chatelain and Vaughn Booker in Africana Studies and William Sturkey in the History Department are bolstering Penn’s position as one of the best places for the field of African American history.
Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
A hand-coiled clay jar by pueblo artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s Native American Voices gallery. The abstract surface design references water and its use in the U.S. Southwest.
The philosophy of pregnancy
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.
Scientists observe composite superstructure growth from nanocrystals in real time
Scientists observe composite superstructure growth from nanocrystals in real time
The findings could enable engineers to more reliably manufacture next-generation materials by combining different nanocrystals.
Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala
Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala
At the 2023 Alumni Award of Merit Gala, eight distinguished alumni will receive Awards of Merit, the Creative Spirit Award, and the inaugural Penn Alumni Social Impact Award, and Camille Z. Charles will receive the Faculty Award of Merit.
In the circle with Allison Kuzyk
In the circle with Allison Kuzyk
The fourth-year forward discusses her field hockey career, how Vancouver is like Seattle, her most memorable game, playing for the Junior Canadian Field Hockey Team, her interest in real estate, and her plans for the future.
Chinese Calligraphy Club makes an old art new again
Chinese Calligraphy Club makes an old art new again
The Penn Chinese Calligraphy Club, formed during the pandemic, endures as a meeting ground for amateur calligraphers who value the practice as meditation and art.
In the News
The Wall Street Journal
Suddenly there aren’t enough babies. The whole world is alarmed
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of the School of Arts & Sciences estimates that global fertility last year fell to below global replacement for the first time in human history.
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Salon.com
The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the warming of the oceans is helping to destabilize ice shelves and fuel more powerful hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music
Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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The New York Times
Jerome Rothenberg, who expanded the sphere of poetry, dies at 92
Charles Bernstein of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the late Jerome Rothenberg was the ultimate hyphenated person: a poet-critic-anthologist-translator.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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