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Passport drive opens up the world to undergrads
Two people face each other at a table, filling out paperwork, with a tower of blue and yellow balloons in the background

Penn Abroad offered students the chance to get a fully funded passport at a recent passport drive on campus.

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Passport drive opens up the world to undergrads

Penn Abroad provided fully funded passports to undergraduates who have never held a passport before, with priority given to students who receive financial aid.

Kristen de Groot

Structural elements of archaea
Photo of Yellowstone hotspring.

Archaea, a unique domain of life, were discovered in the 1970s in extreme environments such as hot springs and salty lakes, with notable early studies conducted in locations like Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Initially considered unusual bacteria, their distinct genetics and biochemistry led to their recognition as a separate domain, emphasizing microbial diversity and evolutionary complexity.

(Image: iStock / rmbarricarte)

Structural elements of archaea

Researchers shed light on archea, a single cell microorganism, to discover how proteins determine what shape a cell will take and how that form may function.
In Japan, teaching a multitude of creative anthropology practices
Three students work on a large map on a table.

Ritsumeikan University students work on a collective mapping exercise led by Penn anthropology Ph.D. student Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo, using markers, sticky notes, and stickers to annotate a map with the emotions, memories, and habits they associate with different parts of Kyoto.

(Image: Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo)

In Japan, teaching a multitude of creative anthropology practices

Penn anthropologists in the Center for Experimental Ethnography led workshops at Ritsumeikan University on performance, film, mapping, sound, and collaging.
‘Ladysitting’ on stage 
Nolen, Lorene Cary, and Finister speaking with each other at Kelly Writers House.

Lorene Cary (center) with actor Melanye Finister (right) and the Arden's Terry Nolen (left) at the Kelly Writers House. 

Image: Delaney Parks

‘Ladysitting’ on stage 

The new play “Ladysitting” at the Arden Theatre Co. is by Penn English faculty and alumna Lorene Cary, based on her memoir about caring for her grandmother in the last of her 101 years.
Imagining a sustainable future in Southern Greenland
Two long, two-story buildings located off of a gravel road. Two smokestacks are in the foreground.

The Narsarsuaq Hotel, a former military barracks located a few hundred feet from the Narsarsuaq Airport (a former military airfield), and the diesel power plant in Narsaq. The town is one of the only settlements in South Greenland still powered by diesel instead of hydro-electric power.

(Image: Billy Fleming)

Imagining a sustainable future in Southern Greenland

Billy Fleming and landscape architecture students in the Weitzman School of Design brainstormed possibilities for a green economy in a former mining town in one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth.

Kristina García

Penn students take first at the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court regionals
Kanyinsola Ajayi (left) and Ty Parks

Kanyinsola Ajayi (left) and Ty Parks won first place in the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court Competition Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Carey Law)

Penn students take first at the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court regionals

Penn Carey Law’s Kanyinsola Ajayi and Ty Parks captured first place in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition, and advance to the competition’s national championship.

From Penn Carey Law

How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements
A robot implying artificial intelligence.

Image: iStock/Aphithana Chitmongkolthong

How AI tools can help assess verbal eyewitness statements

Quattrone Center Academic Director Paul Heaton’s new paper explores how he and his co-authors trained a large language model to parse eyewitness confidence statements.

From Penn Carey Law

New molecules, inspired by space shuttles, advance lipid nanoparticle delivery for weight control
Microscopic view of lipid nanoparticles.

Like space shuttles using booster rockets to breach the atmosphere, lipid nanoparticles equipped with the new molecule more successfully deliver medicinal payloads.

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New molecules, inspired by space shuttles, advance lipid nanoparticle delivery for weight control

Penn Engineering researchers have invented a new way to synthesize the key chemical components of lipid nanoparticles that help protect and deliver medicinal payloads.

From Penn Engineering Today