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Exploring anxiety and social change
Jason Schnittker teaches class.

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Exploring anxiety and social change

Sociology professor Jason Schnittker teaches the course Anxious Times: Social Change and Fear, based on a book he wrote. Through a data-sensitive approach, students study anxiety and mental health.
AI security
Digital hands manipulating by a man in the suit. Internet risks, artifical intelligence anxiety concept.

As large language models become increasingly adept at synthesizing information and producing human-like responses, many are concerned that malicious actors may use this technology in dangerous ways. Alex Robey, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, is developing a first-of-its-kind defense­­, SmoothLLM.

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AI security

As AI gets more adept at synthesizing information and producing humanlike responses, many are concerned that malicious actors may use this technology in dangerous ways. Ph.D. candidate Alex Robey safeguards AI systems against malicious tampering.
What’s That? Fox-Fels Hall
Red brick exterior of Fox-Fels Hall on Penn campus, a Georgian style mansion with green shutters and white trim.

The exterior of Fox-Fels Hall on Walnut Street.

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What’s That? Fox-Fels Hall

‘The mansion’ is home to the Fels Institute of Government, Penn's graduate school for public policy and public management. 

Kristen de Groot

Catherine Seavitt’s transdisciplinary approach to landscape architecture
Catherine Seavitt.

Catherine Seavitt, professor and chair of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School.

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Catherine Seavitt’s transdisciplinary approach to landscape architecture

The Weitzman School’s chair of Landscape Architecture discusses her influences and inspirations on her work as an architect and landscape architect.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Finding light in dark times
Cupped hands holding a tea light candle.

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Finding light in dark times

Professors Deven Patel and Steven Weitzman in the School of Arts & Sciences discuss why Diwali and Hanukkah, both festivals of lights, can act as symbols of hope.

Michele W. Berger

Three sisters share Penn Dental education
Joanna Haddad, Mira-Belle Haddad, and Anna-Maria Haddad.

From left to right: Joanna Haddad, Mira-Belle Haddad, and Anna-Maria Haddad.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Dental Medicine)

Three sisters share Penn Dental education

The trio of DMD students were raised in Lebanon and grew up in an environment where oral health care was inaccessible to the general population. At Penn Dental Medicine, they share a unique bond and a common vision for their future.

From Penn Dental Medicine

Over a third of Americans worry about getting the flu, RSV, or COVID-19
A child on a nebulizer.

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Over a third of Americans worry about getting the flu, RSV, or COVID-19

American adults are worried they or loved ones will succumb to the ‘tripledemic’ illnesses in the next three months, according to a new health survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Giving Tuesday
Volunteers organizing at a food drive

Giving Tuesday, now just 11 years old, was originally conceived in response to Black Friday as a tonic to consumerism, says Katherina “Kat” Rosqueta, founding executive director of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the School of Social Policy & Practice.

(Image: Joel Muniz on Unsplash)

Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday, now just 11 years old, was originally conceived in response to Black Friday as a tonic to consumerism. Katherina “Kat” Rosqueta of the Center for High Impact Philanthropy discusses how the day is an opportunity to think about others.

Kristina García

Encountering rare texts in the Penn Libraries 
Two people looking at large COVID posters on a table in the Kislak Libary.

COVID-19 propaganda posters in Chinese; Wuhan, China; 2020

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Encountering rare texts in the Penn Libraries 

Undergraduate history of art majors organized an event at the Penn Libraries featuring 10 rare texts, out on a table and open for anyone to see, ranging from a manuscript dated to about the year 850 to COVID-19 posters from 2020.