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People pose on a couch after Thanksgiving dinner.

Thanksgiving meal program provides food, family, friends, and fun

Penn’s Assembly of International Students is matching international undergrads and graduate students with a faculty or staff partner who invites them to a Thanksgiving meal.

Weitzman’s Sarah Lopez on migration, architectural history, ethnography, and urban and spatial justice

The architectural historian and migration scholar is part of the Department of Historic Preservation as well as the Department of City & Regional Planning, focusing on both the material and social connections of labor between Mexico and the U.S.

Exterior of Singh Center for Nanotechnology lit up at nighS

The Singh Center for Nanotechnology turns 10

Since its founding, the Center’s multidisciplinary approach has been a strength, where researchers from Penn Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and more come together in one space.

Harun Kucuk shakes hands with people on Locust Walk

Locust walks: Making connections and bridging differences

Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center, and Joshua Teplitsky, director of the Jewish Studies Program, started walking and talking as an act of campus diplomacy in the wake of the violence in Israel and Gaza.

Forward Jordan Obi makes a move with the ball while guarded by a Siena defender.

Penn slays Siena

The women’s basketball team beat Siena 85-79 on Saturday in New York. Four Quakers scored in double figures.

Penn Carey Law students in the legal seminar.

Psychology of legal decision-making

In the Psychology of Legal Decision-Making seminar, students learn about substantive areas of legal scholarship and also practice essential skills for understanding—and even developing—new empirical research.

Tyson Smith gestures at the head of a table full of students, in front of windows showing trees.

Violence and stigmatized heroes

The new SNF Paideia course taught by Tyson Smith looks at incarcerated veterans and their experiences to understand the intersection of the military, criminal justice, and health.

Pain scores, age can help identify patients more likely to use few or no opioids after surgery

A Penn Medicine study shows that patient pain scores are a good predictor for opioid use, but younger patients and those who hadn’t used opioids before are less likely to take them.

The windows of a building on Penn’s campus.

President Magill announces University Task Force on Antisemitism membership

The Task Force will seek to better understand how antisemitism is experienced at Penn and provide feedback and solutions.

Equity in Action Visiting Scholars program launches

The Office of Social Equity & Community welcomes Ruth Naomi Floyd and Shane Claiborne who will engage in research and each hold four events this academic year.

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