10.21
News Archives
A complete list of stories featured on Penn Today.
Filter Stories
Displaying 1 - 10 of 12512
News・ Sports
Wrestling team grapples on the green
The Penn wrestling team headed outside on to officially kick off its season with its annual “Grapple On The Green” open practice on College Green.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Political intimidation, at-risk media, and the future of journalism: A Q&A with Barbie Zelizer
In the wake of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death, Barbie Zelizer, director of the Center for Media at Risk, discusses how journalists and other digital media practitioners can better prepare for working in today’s climate and why, for that to happen, the media culture needs to shift.
News・ Health Sciences
Skin cream use OK’d during radiation therapy
A new study challenges common advice given to patients about whether topical creams increase radiation dose during cancer treatment.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Cuba libre
The complexities of Cuba’s history and the response by artists were the focus of the summer abroad course “Penn-in-Havana: Visual Culture and Public Art in Cuba,” taught by art historian Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, and funded by a Making a Difference in Diverse Communities grant.
News・ Sports
Men’s basketball team picked second in Ivy Preseason Media Poll
The reigning Ivy League champions return four starters from last year’s squad, which finished 24-9 overall and 12-2 in regular-season conference play.
News・ Campus & Community
The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’
During the next two years, Penn IREF will award as much as $2 million in matching research grants to Penn faculty to stimulate and support research activity in India.
News・ Campus & Community
Students, Bush talk political differences and bridging divide
Jeb Bush, the 43rd governor of Florida, and Penn’s very own Presidential Professor of Practice, joined students on Wednesday evening in College Hall for a wide-ranging, candid discussion.
News・ Campus & Community
Penn Biden Center engages students in The Democracy Project
Students took part in the first of four national events aimed at deepening the understanding of young Americans' attitudes about democracy.
News・ Campus & Community
‘Healthy Pequeños’ teaches young children about hygiene, germs, and food safety
Alaina Hall’s project, a 2018 Penn President’s Engagement Prize winner, is already making a difference for a residential childcare home in Miacatlán, Mexico.
News・ Science & Technology
Eugene Mele and Charles Kane to share Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
For introducing a new class of materials with unique and useful properties, known as topological insulators, physicists Charles Kane and Eugene Mele will receive the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The award honors “fundamental discoveries…that are transforming our world.”