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Penn Glee Club performs on its first European tour as a gender-inclusive choir
Glee Club members in formalwear gathered together in ballroom under crystal chandeliers

On the first traveling tour with a gender-inclusive choir, 54 members of the Penn Glee Club performed in Spain and France. They debuted new formalwear before an audience of Penn alumni at the Ritz in Paris. 

Penn Glee Club performs on its first European tour as a gender-inclusive choir

On the first traveling tour as a gender-inclusive choir, the Penn Glee Club performed before audiences that included alumni in a Paris ballroom and passers-by on the streets of Barcelona.
A mashup of marketing and neuroscience
Four students and Elizabeth Johnson in a Wharton lab.

Elizabeth “Zab” Johnson (far right), executive director of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, hosts a demonstration in the Wharton Behavioral Lab where students collect eye-tracking data that they later analyze for a group project. (Image: Wharton Magazine)

A mashup of marketing and neuroscience

Wharton’s Visual Marketing course examines the real-world applications of visual cognition and its influence on consumer behavior.

From Wharton Magazine

Overturning Roe disproportionately burdens marginalized groups
A person tearing up in a crowd of people. The person, who is holding a green bandana, wears a shirt that says "We Won't Back Down." Other people hold up signs in the crowd, including "Keep Abortion Legal."

Abortion-rights activists demonstrate in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Overturning Roe disproportionately burdens marginalized groups

For low-income people and people of color, lack of access to safe abortions in the U.S. will have a range of health and financial ramifications, compounding factors like poverty and systemic racism.

Michele W. Berger

Hong Kong handover, 25 years later
Hong Kong and Chinese flags fly in advance of the 25th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain

Chinese and Hong Kong flags are hanged to celebrate the upcoming 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong, Friday, June 17, 2022. Hong Kong marks the anniversary on July 1, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong handover, 25 years later

Hong Kong marks 25 years under Chinese control on July 1. Jacques deLisle, director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, discusses where Hong Kong stands now and what the future might hold.

Kristen de Groot

The Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s power to curb climate change
Smoke from a power plant clouds out the sun's light

With the decision in West Virginia v. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court ruled to limit the EPA’s capacity to regulate power plant emissions under the Clean Air Act. The move hamstrings efforts by the federal government to regulate a major contributor to climate change.

  • Q&A

    • The Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s power to curb climate change

    Shelley Welton, a new faculty member with Penn Carey Law and the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, calls the decision “devastating,” even if expected. She explains the ruling and its implications for action on climate change.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    From 5 to 95: The impact of life experiences on brain health
    An elderly person doing a crossword puzzle.

    From 5 to 95: The impact of life experiences on brain health

    Structural and social determinants of health (SSDoH) are environmental conditions in which individuals are born, live, and learn that affect health, and evidence suggests that SSDoH can help to explain similar outcomes in Alzheimer’s disease.

    From Penn Memory Center

    Climate change’s impact on cardiovascular mortality
    African American person sitting outside cooling their head with a towel.

    Climate change’s impact on cardiovascular mortality

    Two new studies from Penn LDI indicate the increasing number of extreme heat waves baking large swaths of the country pose new levels of potentially deadly health threats, particularly for older adults and minority populations in low-income communities.

    Hoag Levins

    Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’
    Joan DeJean and the cover of her book Mutinous Women

    In her latest book “Mutinous Women,” Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French Colony of Louisiana. DeJean’s research follows their paths and corrects the historical record, documenting that they were victims, unjustly accused and convicted.

    (Image: Candace diCarlo)

    Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’

    In her latest book, Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French colony of Louisiana.