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Understanding the Northeast earthquake
Photograph of a seismograph reading following an earthquake.

Last week people in the Northeast experienced a rare earthquake that registered a magnitude of 4.8. To learn more about the mechanics of earthquakes and this occurrence, Penn Today spoke with David Goldsby of the School of Arts & Sciences and Robert Carpick of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

(Image: iStock/allanswart)

  • Q&A

    • Understanding the Northeast earthquake

    Last week, people in the Northeast experienced a rare earthquake that registered a magnitude of 4.8. Penn Today spoke with David Goldsby of the School of Arts & Sciences and Robert Carpick of the School of Engineering and Applied Science about the event.
    ‘Moving along’ to the Dutch-German border
    Two people sit in front of the glass doors of a brick building.

    Simon Richter (left) chats with Dutch comedian Patrick Nederkoorn in a still from the documentary “A New Peace of Münster.”

    (Image: Courtesy of Maria Kolossa)

    ‘Moving along’ to the Dutch-German border

    A new documentary co-produced and co-starring Simon Richter of the School of Arts & Sciences invites viewers to imagine the day when the Dutch may have to move toward Germany as sea levels rise and how that might happen peacefully and innovatively.

    Kristen de Groot

    Who, What, Why: Luke Godsey’s Appalachian quilt
    Luke Godsey holds a multicolored quilt up at the PWC

    Luke Godsey and the in-progress quilt at the Penn Women’s Center

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Luke Godsey’s Appalachian quilt

    Luke Godsey, a second-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, has created a quilt for the Penn Women’s Center as part of a new art series.

    Kristina García

    Penn students react to rare East Coast earthquake
    Students on Penn’s Locust Walk.

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    Penn students react to rare East Coast earthquake

    An earthquake with the preliminary magnitude of 4.8 centered in New Jersey was felt up and down the East Coast on Friday, including on Penn’s campus.

    Kristen de Groot

    The Penn-China architectural connection
    Lin Huiyin with Liang Sicheng at the Temple of Heaven

    Lin Huiyin with Liang Sicheng at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, c. 1936.

    (Image: Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection)

    The Penn-China architectural connection

    Penn’s Weitzman School of Design has a long history of collaboration in China, and large number of Chinese international students are undertaking adaptive reuse and historical preservation projects.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    Curtains up on spring student shows
    Members of a Penn performing arts group rehearsing in a studio.

    Kate Fitzsimmons (center) a third-year student in the Nursing School warms up practicing with the dancers of Strictly Funk, a student club who perform hip-hop, jazz, contemporary, and free-style

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    Curtains up on spring student shows

    Hours of preparation go into dozens of student performances, a highlight of the thriving performing arts scene on campus.