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Meeting a ‘generational challenge’: Feeding the world and doing it sustainably
cows in new bolton center pasture

(Homepage image) Cattle contribute a quarter of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet animal protein can be an invaluable source of nutrition and way of combatting malnutrition around the globe. The new Center’s work is stepping into this tension, says Parsons, to address “a generational challenge.” (Image: Penn Vet)

Meeting a ‘generational challenge’: Feeding the world and doing it sustainably

With the launch of the Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food Security, the School of Veterinary Medicine is working “to make animal agriculture part of a solution to a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable future.”

Katherine Unger Baillie

Inauguration day at Penn
A banner with the Penn shield for the Inauguration of the ninth president, Liz Magill, on Friday, October 21, 2022.

Inauguration day at Penn

How to watch President Magill’s historic inauguration.

Penn Today Staff

Decolonize the future: Defending Indigenous rights and lands
Maya activist Cristina Coc speaks into a microphone on the Perry World House stage

Cristina Coc, a Q’eqchi’ Maya community leader who founded and is program director of the Julian Cho Society, was one of three activists from Belize at the Perry World House event. (Image: Courtesy of Perry World House).

Decolonize the future: Defending Indigenous rights and lands

Three Maya activists from Belize spoke with Richard M. Leventhal about the challenges and progress they’ve made on land rights in recent years.

Kristen de Groot

Quit removing wax from your ears
Two hands holding a cotton swab in an X formation.

Quit removing wax from your ears

For the vast majority, ear wax does not cause any problems and there’s no need to remove it—not only do cotton swabs not remove ear wax, but they can pose a risk of hearing loss.

Caren Begun

Mask and Wig makes history with its first gender-inclusive show
six students dancing in a rehearsal room

The Mask and Wig Club will make history when they take the stage Oct. 12-15 in the fall show, “Better Call Y’all,” the first gender-inclusive production since its founding as an all-male comedy group in 1889. The cast rehearsed at the Platt House for the Performing Arts.

Mask and Wig makes history with its first gender-inclusive show

The 133-year-old comedy troupe becomes gender-inclusive, opening auditions to all undergraduates this fall, recruiting 20 new members, 14 of them female-identifying.
The uncertain future of DACA
Dreamers from Mexico living in Houston rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, holding signs reading "DACA is temporary; our home is here"

Susana Lujano, left, a dreamer from Mexico who lives in Houston, joins other activists to rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 15, 2022.  (Image: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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    • The uncertain future of DACA

    Sarah Paoletti of Penn Carey Law’s Transnational Legal Clinic sheds some light on a federal appeals court ruling earlier this month.

    Kristen de Groot

    British South Asian social media influencers balancing race, religion, ethnicity, and gender
    Three screenshots of Instagram influencer, at left Nadiya Hussein and. her daugher, center is Harnaam Kaur, and left is Amena Khan.

    Instagram posts by Nadiya Hussain, Harnaam Kaur, and Amena Khan. (Image: Courtesy of Annenberg School for Communication)

    British South Asian social media influencers balancing race, religion, ethnicity, and gender

    Annenberg professor Aswin Punathambekar’s new paper examines life online for three social media influencers, including Nadiya Hussain from “The Great British Bake Off.”

    From Annenberg School for Communication