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Serving service members
In a room decorated with armed services' flags, pictures of service members, and stars, President Liz Magill talks with Landon Le, a second-year student.

Landon Le (center) talks with President Liz Magill. For Le, a transfer student fromWorcester, Massachusetts, coming to Penn was a lifelong dream. Joining the Massachusetts National Guard was a way to serve the country and go to college, he said. 

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Serving service members

There are more than 18 million veterans and an additional 1.6 million service members in the United States. Around 297 of them are students at Penn. In a Nov. 9 event, the University honored these students with an event coordinated by the Veteran and Military Affiliated Students program.

Kristina García

Fair leases in Philadelphia
Philadelphia cityscape and skyline.

Image: iStock/ChrisBoswell

Fair leases in Philadelphia

Law professor David Hoffman and a team of Penn Carey Law students have created a pathbreaking model lease for Philadelphia that is fair, legal, and free.

From Penn Carey Law

Penn Medicine studies unlock new insights into gene therapy
String of colorful DNA.

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Penn Medicine studies unlock new insights into gene therapy

The studies on AAV-based gene therapies in non-human primates suggest that integration into human DNA is unlikely to drive cancer mutations.

Eric Horvath

Election night takeaways
Signs for and against Ohio's Issue 1 are in a lawn covered in fall leaves in front of a church

Issue 1 signs sit outside Knox Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. Issue 1 specifically declares an individual’s right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including abortion.

(Image: AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

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.

Kristen de Groot

A striking soccer story, starring Stas Korzeniowski
Stas Korzeniowski stands inside a goal at Penn Park with the Philly skyline in the background.

Image: Eric Sucar

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.
Carbon capture and common misconceptions: A Q&A with Joe Romm
Aerial landscape view of a large coal fired power plant with storage tanks for Biofuel burning instead of coal

Joe Romm, a senior research fellow in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, has recently published two papers on carbon dioxide removal and bioenergy carbon capture and will be keynoting American University’s Third Annual Conference on Carbon Dioxide Removal Law & Policy: Carbon Removal Deployment: Law and Policy from Planning to Project.

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  • Q&A

    • Carbon capture and common misconceptions: A Q&A with Joe Romm

    In a conversation with Penn Today, Joe Romm casts a sobering light on “solutions” to curb climate change.
    Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history
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    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.

    Kristen de Groot

    A centimeter-scale quadruped leverages curved-crease origami
    A centimeter-scale quadruped robot sitting on a desk next to a a quarter for scale

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    A centimeter-scale quadruped leverages curved-crease origami

    Researchers led by Cynthia Sung in Penn Engineering have crafted a more simplified approach to the design and fabrication of these robots.

    From Penn Engineering Today

    Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
    clay jar in museum case surrounded by other clay works

    The clay jar by artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s long-term exhibition, Native American Voices: The People. Here and Now.

    (Image: J. DiSanto, Penn Museum)

  • Art Matters

    • 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.