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Can China stop climate change?
Scott Moore sitting on a bench Scott Moore, director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives, pictured along Locust Walk.
  • Q&A

    • Can China stop climate change?

    In a political science course and new book, Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives Scott Moore unfurls the layers of China’s approach to sustainability and technology.
    Wale Adebanwi on democratic reform in Africa
    Illustrations of chat boxes, African American hands holding a handful of stones, and an African American person in profile.

    Image: Kingsley Nebechi

    Wale Adebanwi on democratic reform in Africa

    The Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies teaches an undergraduate course, Popular Culture and Youth in Africa. He discusses successes and challenges of democratic reform in post-Cold War Africa.

    From Omnia

    Managing mental health amid gun violence
    A large grassy area covered in a display of t-shirts erected with names of people killed by gun violence around a sign that reads MEMORIAL TO PHILADELPHIANS MURDERED BY ILLEGAL GUNS.

    Image: Michael Stokes via Flickr

    Managing mental health amid gun violence

    In 2021, Philadelphia saw a record number of 486 homicides by shooting as well 1,846 non-fatal shootings. According to clinical psychologist Leah Blain, exposure to trauma, including to gun violence, increases the risk of negative health outcomes.

    From Penn Medicine News

    Debate as social empowerment
    Member of the Penn Debate Society look at notes during a round with the Bard Prison Initiative Debate Union

    Members of the Penn Debate Society discuss notes during their round against the Bard Prison Initiative Debate Union at Eastern New York Correctional Facility in April. (Image: Courtesy of Karen Pearson/BPI)

    Debate as social empowerment

    From debating a team in an upstate New York prison to helping the formerly incarcerated in Philadelphia, the Penn Debate Society sees debate as a tool to help others help themselves

    Kristen de Groot

    Who, What, Why: Tamia Harvey-Martin presents her film debut
    Tamia Harvey-Martin smiles in front of the LGBT Center with one hand in her pocket and one hand on a camera hung on a strap around her neck

    Tamia Harvey-Martin premieres “A Foolproof Guide to Relationships,” a short film about asexuality, at the LGBT Center on June 28. 

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Tamia Harvey-Martin presents her film debut

    Tamia Harvey-Martin premieres “A Foolproof Guide to Relationships,” a short film about asexuality, at the LGBT Center on June 28. 

    Kristina García

    What the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means
    Administrator working in a reproductive health clinic with a sign on their desk that reads BANS OFF OUR BODIES.

    Image: AP Photo/Martha Irvine

    What the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means

    Marci Hamilton, a Penn Professor of Practice and founder and CEO of the nonprofit think tank CHILD USA, offers thoughts as this news unfolds.

    Michele W. Berger

    More to explore on women in the American wilderness
    Illustration in a book of a frog.

    A page of Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium. (Image: Penn Libraries News)

    More to explore on women in the American wilderness

    Caroline Fearey Schimmel has spent 50 years as a book collector and bibliographer on women in the American wilderness whose contributions went unrecognized, both as creators of fictional and artistic works and as history makers.

    From Penn Libraries

    New gift brings design education to underserved youth
    Teenage students working on a scale design model.

    Design to Thrive gathers students ages 13 to 18 four days a week for an intensive design and making studio, where PennPraxis Design Fellows teach design skills and approaches, including welding with blowtorches, creating ceramic molds for porcelain bells, and building a precise topographic model. (Image: Gaja Papa for The Fresh Air Fund.)

    New gift brings design education to underserved youth

    Lori Kanter Tritsch and William P. Lauder, University of Pennsylvania Trustee, have created a new program for PennPraxis, the practice arm of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at Penn.
    Princess Rahman on ancient history, studying abroad, and her senior-year pivot
    A woman wearing a visor and backpack holds a notebook in front of a stone wall with mountain views in the background

    Studying abroad was a highlight of Princess Rahman’s college career. 

    Princess Rahman on ancient history, studying abroad, and her senior-year pivot

    Princess Rahman, a May graduate in the School of Arts & Sciences, pivoted from a pre-med track to become an ancient history major. After a semester abroad in Rome, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Egyptology.

    Kristina García