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Can the COVID playbook help end malaria?
A Perry World House forum at the University of Pennsylvania discusses how lessons from COVID-19 can impact the fight to end malaria

A Sept. 12 Perry World House event, Can the COVID Playbook Help End Malaria?, looked at the historic fight against this disease, along with new developments in mRNA vaccine technologies and lessons learned from the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Can the COVID playbook help end malaria?

In a Perry World House conversation, Matthew Laurens, Martina Mchenga, and Drew Weissman discussed how lessons from a global pandemic could help in the fight to eradicate malaria.

Kristina García

Climate Week 2023 highlights the links between biodiversity and the climate crisis
wildfire with smoke in a forest Wildfires are becoming increasingly common as a result of the climate crisis, endangering biodiversity and humans.

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Climate Week 2023 highlights the links between biodiversity and the climate crisis

The climate crisis impacts everyone. During Climate Week at Penn, which will be held from Sept. 18-22, everyone is invited to find their place in the climate movement.

Liana F. Wait

Penn milestone heralds more expansive approach to preservation
Researchers at the Wupatki National Monument.

Through Weitzman’s Center for Architectural Conservation, preservation faculty and students are working with the National Park Service and the Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps to preserve Wupatki National Monument, where people first gathered in the 1100s.

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Penn milestone heralds more expansive approach to preservation

For 40 years, Penn’s Graduate Program in Historic Preservation has expanded its purview and explores how to become more of a public design practice.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Helping Philadelphia high school students communicate health research
Brittany Zulkiewicz teaches at a blackboard in a high school classroom.

Brittany Zulkiewicz discusses group dynamics and the process of working together.

(Image: Thandi Lyew)

Helping Philadelphia high school students communicate health research

Annenberg School doctoral students Thandi Lyew and Brittany Zulkiewicz worked with local teens through a Penn Graduate Community-Engaged Research Fellowship.

From Annenberg School for Communication

The Chilean coup, 50 years later
A row of soldiers lying on their stomachs take cover as La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace, is bombed.

On Sept. 11, 1973, soldiers supporting the coup led by Augusto Pinochet took cover as bombs are dropped on the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in Santiago, Chile.

(Image: AP Photo/Enrique Aracena)

The Chilean coup, 50 years later

Two conversations mark the 50th anniversary of the military takeover on Sept. 11, 1973, discussing its political and historical implications.

Kristina García

Teaching Aristotle and modern moral philosophy
Sukaina Hirji poses outside Cohen Hall.

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Teaching Aristotle and modern moral philosophy

Philosophy professor Sukaina Hirji has expanded her work from Aristotle and the history of philosophy to contemporary issues of love and sex, oppression, and anger.
Why stock valuation hinges more on returns than future earnings
Graph of stock market trends rising and plateauing.

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Why stock valuation hinges more on returns than future earnings

Growth stocks don’t generate the long-term returns that would justify their high multiples, according to the 2023 Jacobs Levy Center’s “Best Paper” co-authored by the Wharton School’s Sean Myers.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Engineering changemakers: Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton
Cora ingrum and Donna Hampton stand beside portraits in their likeness.

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Engineering changemakers: Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton

Sharing a legacy of leadership and decades of service in Penn Engineering’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton had a transformative impact on academic life at the school.