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Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’
Sonal Khullar inspects the flyleaf from 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Sonal Khullar inspects the flyleaf of an illustrated copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ a favorite book from her childhood.

(Image: Dan Horan.)

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    • Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’

    The history of South Asian art professor discusses books, art, and love through her edited volume “Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia.”

    Kristina García

    Educational inequities? Follow the numbers, says Ericka Weathers
    Ericka Weathers.

    Ericka Weathers, assistant professor in Penn GSE’s Policy, Organizations, Leadership and Systems division.

    (Image: Joe McFetridge/Joe Mac Creative)

    Educational inequities? Follow the numbers, says Ericka Weathers

    The Penn GSE professor studies how policies that are supposed to be race-neutral, like school funding formulas, truancy policy, or special education, end up failing marginalized groups, and urges a look at the results of past policies to better inform moving forward.

    From Penn GSE

    A talk with ALOK: Inaugural Scholar of the Endowed LGBTQ+ Scholar-In-Residence Program
    ALOK in a flower field.

    ALOK is the creator of #DeGenderFashion, an initiative to degender fashion and beauty industries. They have been honored as one of HuffPost’s Culture Shifters and NBC’s Pride 50, and have appeared in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, The Trans List, and Netflix’s Getting Curious.

    (Image: Kohl Murdock)

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    • A talk with ALOK: Inaugural Scholar of the Endowed LGBTQ+ Scholar-In-Residence Program

    The author, poet, comedian, and public speaker spoke to Penn Today about challenging gender binary ahead of their residency with Penn’s LGBT Center.

    Kristina García

    Advocacy, equality, and wellness at the Penn Women’s Center
    Elisa Foster stands in the Penn Women's Center Hallway, which contains a display of flyers that showcase the Center's history. Here, the 1980s.

    The hallway also serves as a visual reminder for the 50 years of anti-violence work. 

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    Advocacy, equality, and wellness at the Penn Women’s Center

    The Penn Women’s Center occupies three-quarters of a three-story house tucked off Locust Walk, with a front garden dotted with clumps of hellebores and daffodils during the spring. It has a full kitchen, a barbeque in back, and rooms that can be reserved by anyone on campus, with first preference going to student groups. 

    Kristina García

    Celebrating Penn’s Named Scholarship Program in New York City
    Magill on stage with three students smiling

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    Celebrating Penn’s Named Scholarship Program in New York City

    President Liz Magill moderated a panel featuring three students who shared their unique paths to and extraordinary experiences at Penn, thanks to the University’s generous donor community.

    Lauren Hertzler

    Penn Athletics launches formalized internship program
    Penn Athletics interns stand at center court at the Palestra near the Penn logo

    Image: Penn Athletics

    Penn Athletics launches formalized internship program

    In the first year of the formalized program in 2022-23, Penn Athletics has doubled its internship pool from 25 to 50.

    Kevin Bonner

    Good Friday Agreement, 25 years later
    Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair and then taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday agreement 25 years ago.

    Then-U.K. prime minister Tony Blair (left) and then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998. 

     (Image: Press Association via AP Images)

    Good Friday Agreement, 25 years later

    Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences looks back at the deal that brought peace to Northern Ireland.

    Kristen de Groot

    Designing for, and with, forests
    From left: Lon Henderson, U.S. Forest Service; Weitzman students Ari Vamos, Vyusti Agarwalla, Jiajing Dai, Caz Gagne, and Oliver Atwood.

    Treated fire resilient forest, after thinning and prescribed burning, in the Tahoe National Forest, a project partner with the North Yuba Forest Partnership. From left: Lon Henderson, U.S. Forest Service; Weitzman students Ari Vamos, Vyusti Agarwalla, Jiajing Dai, Caz Gagne, and Oliver Atwood.

    (Image: Nicholas Pevzner)

    Designing for, and with, forests

    Nicholas Pevzner, assistant professor of landscape architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, is leading a landscape architecture studio that focuses on forest management in the American West.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    Katharine O. Strunk named Dean of Penn’s top-ranked Graduate School of Education
    New GSE dean smiling against colorful backdrop

    Katharine O. Strunk

    (Courtesy of Michigan State University)

    Katharine O. Strunk named Dean of Penn’s top-ranked Graduate School of Education

    Strunk, an award-winning mixed methods scholar at Michigan State University, is an expert on teacher labor markets, school and district improvement and accountability policies, and efforts to boost student achievement. 
    Four Penn faculty named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows
    a grid of four faces

    Four faculty have been awarded the prestigious 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship: (clockwise from upper left) Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School; and Heather K. Love, professor of English; Jennifer M. Morton, professor of philosophy; and Projit Bihari Mukharji, professor of history and sociology of science in the School of Arts & Sciences.

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    Four Penn faculty named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows

    PIK Professor Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and Heather K. Love, Jennifer M. Morton, and Projit Bihari Mukharji of the School of Arts & Sciences have been awarded the prestigious fellowship.