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A sign calls for the cancellation of student debt at a rally

What is the impact of Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan?

A Graduate School of Education expert and faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model’s take a look at the budgetary costs and distributional impact of the U.S. President’s initiative.

An “Unemployment benefits application checklist” form on a surface next to a pen.

Who wants government health care and unemployment programs to expand?

A study by Penn LDI fellows finds that people who felt most at risk from COVID-19 tend to favor expansions, regardless of their political attitudes.

Person seen walking in a town across the river from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine

Q&A

Ukraine nuclear power plant caught in war’s crossfire

The School of Arts & Sciences’ Anna Mikulska, an expert on the geopolitics of energy, discusses the situation at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Station, Russia’s aims, and what she’s most concerned about.

Penn President Liz Magill shakes hands with a new student’s parent.

New Student Orientation

The Class of 2026 and other new students attended myriad events to get to know the campus and each other.

Skyline of the city of Philadelphia and Ben Franklin Bridge at dusk.

Weitzman’s Michael Fichman on nighttime economies and a Philly milestone

Weitzman’s Michael Fichman discusses how the Night Time Economy Office benefits all aspects of city life, creating a safe, thriving, and creative community 24 hours a day.

Jamelle Bouie speaking to a crowd in a lecture hall.

The Constitution is the crisis: Jamelle Bouie on the state of the U.S.

The New York Times columnist hosted a talk, “Way Past Normal: American Politics in 2022 and Beyond,” hosted by The Andrea Mitchell Center, The SNF Paideia Program, and The Government and Politics Association.

Four office coworkers put their recycling in the bin.

What to know about Penn’s Eco-Reps program

Four representatives from across the University talk about how this group provides a campus community that helps fight climate change, plus ways people, offices, and labs can get involved.

Adrian poses next to garden shrubbery that has been sculpted into the word "LIMA"

Chinese Americans, countries apart

Fourth year Adrian Ke’s research into Chinese Peruvian immigrants fueled her thesis and a deeper connection to her own cultural identity.

two sets of arms over a hand-operated printing press, one set with gloved hands putting ink on a metal cylinder and the other placing a printing plate with an image of a tree without leaves on the flat surface in front of the cylinder

Creating an artist’s book at the Common Press

Artist-in-residence Katie Baldwin is printing a book she wrote and illustrated, inspired by a 400-plus-year-old volume in the Penn Libraries collection, sponsored by a residency with the Philadelphia Center for the Book.

A gloved hand holding a small vial of Sars-CoV2 mRNA vaccine.

Behind the scenes in the lab and the future of mRNA research

Developing new vaccines and novel mRNA delivery methods, coupled with the satisfaction of mentoring and selfless dedication to medicine, inspire the work of scientists at the Weissman Lab.

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