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Open expression and the role of universities
Four people sit in chairs on an auditorium stage in front of a sign reading Living the Hard Promise.

The School of Arts & Sciences’ second installment of its “Living the Hard Promise”series looked at the current state of discourse around universities.

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Open expression and the role of universities

The second installment of the School of Arts & Sciences’ new dialogue series featured a discussion about the current state of discourse around universities.

Kristen de Groot

‘Politicians in robes’: How a sharp right turn imperiled trust in the Supreme Court
Members of the Supreme Court at Biden’s State of the Union address in 2024.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (front right), stands with other members of the Supreme Court before President Biden’s annual State of the Union address, on Capitol Hill, on March 7, 2024 in Washington, D.C.

(Image: Graeme Sloan/Sipa via AP Images)

‘Politicians in robes’: How a sharp right turn imperiled trust in the Supreme Court

The Court’s shift, capped by the 2022 Dobbs ruling, polarized views of and levels of trust in the Supreme Court along partisan lines for the first time in decades.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Mapping pancreatic cancer to improve immunotherapy
Gregory Beatty holds up a lab sample in a lab coat.

Gregory L. Beatty is an associate professor of hematology-oncology and member of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center.

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Mapping pancreatic cancer to improve immunotherapy

Gregory L. Beatty, an associate professor of hematology-oncology and member of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center, and his team focus on improving immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer.
Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions
Jacqueline Wallis and two students at Philosophy Club.

Fourth-year Ph.D. student Jacqueline Wallis, middle, facilitated an exercise during Philosophy Club after school at the Academy at Palumbo, with high school students Leila Salama, left, and Marty Signes, right.

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Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions

Ph.D. students Jacqueline Wallis and Afton Greco are embedded at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia, where they give philosophy lessons on curriculum-relevant topics and run an after-school Philosophy Club.
Interfacial phenomena: Samantha McBride’s untapped resource for water sustainability
Crystalline coffee ring deposited on superhydrophobic post surface.

Crystalline coffee ring deposited on superhydrophobic post surface.

(Image: Courtesy of the McBride Lab)

Interfacial phenomena: Samantha McBride’s untapped resource for water sustainability

At her lab, McBride is developing technology that can change the face of water security using a multidisciplinary range of scientific disciplines, including physics, chemistry, and materials science.

From Penn Engineering Today

The Penn Museum’s crystal ball
A historic, black-and-white image of two children gazing at the crystal ball

For almost 100 years—except for the three it went missing—one of the world’s largest crystal balls has occupied the Penn Museum’s Asia Galleries.

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The Penn Museum’s crystal ball

For almost 100 years—except for the three it went missing—one of the world’s largest crystal balls has occupied the Asia Galleries of the Penn Museum.

Kristina García

First-year Gobhanu Korisepati receives a 2024 Legacy Award
Prince William presenting an award to Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati,

Britain’s Prince William presents an award to Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati, a first-year student at the University of Pennsylvania from Oman, during the Diana Legacy Award, at the Science Museum in London, on March 14, 2024.

(Image: Arthur Edwards/Pool Photo via AP)

First-year Gobhanu Korisepati receives a 2024 Legacy Award

Korisepati, a student in the Hunstman Program at Penn, accepted the 2024 Diana Legacy Award from the Prince of Wales at a ceremony held March 14.
‘Dual target’ cell therapy appears to shrink brain tumors
CT scan of a brain.

Image: iStock/Ildar Imashev

‘Dual target’ cell therapy appears to shrink brain tumors

Early Penn Medicine trial results show that targeting two tumor-associated proteins in patients with recurrent glioblastoma may be a promising step toward developing cell therapies for solid tumors.