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Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity
Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson in a lab examining a piece of equipment.

(Image: Courtesy of VinUniversity)

Celebrating five years of excellence at VinUniversity

Interim Penn President J. Larry Jameson visited VinUni in Hanoi, Vietnam, to commemorate the university’s fifth anniversary and Penn’s seventh year of allyship. He delivered a lecture about how excellent universities advance society.
Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world
Gobhanu Korisepati standing with his arms crossed.

Korisepati is involved in many student clubs on campus, including as president of Penn Microfinance. 

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Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati co-founded the international microfinancing nonprofit Sustaining Women in Financial Turmoil while in high school, and, as a student at Penn, he continues as executive chairman.
Who, What, Why: Alexander Schrier on Uzbekistan’s role in a new world order
Alexander Schrier looks down from an upper floor of a building, standing behind waist-high glass panels.

Fourth-year Alexander Schrier has been studying Uzbekistan and Central Asian diplomacy for his senior thesis in international relations.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Alexander Schrier on Uzbekistan’s role in a new world order

    The fourth-year international relations student is researching Uzbekistan and Central Asian diplomacy, with a summer spent talking with taxi drivers and U.S. ambassadors on the ground in Tashkent.
    Art Matters: ‘Tall decorated jars’
    Closeup of a Song Dynasty urn with snakes writhing across a ribbed surface

    A snake writhes across a Song Dynasty urn. 

    (Image: Penn Museum)

  • Art Matters

    • Art Matters: ‘Tall decorated jars’

    Jan. 29 marks the Lunar New Year and the advent of the Year of the Snake, an animal that can be spotted in a Penn Museum exhibition featuring objects and celestial figurines from the Song Dynasty.

    Kristina García

    Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith and Awards Commemoration honors King’s life and work
    Eddie Glaude addresses the crowd with a large image of MLK in the background

    “Let’s choose the America that Dr. King gave his life for,” Glaude said in his address. 

    (Image: Damien Townsville)

    Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith and Awards Commemoration honors King’s life and work

    The annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith and Awards Commemoration celebrates King’s life and work and honors students, faculty, staff, and community members. This year’s winners were selected for their work in the Penn community and beyond.

    Kristina García

    Beth A. Winkelstein reappointed as deputy provost
    Beth Winkelstein

    Deputy Provost Beth A. Winkelstein.

    (Image: Kevin Monko)

    Beth A. Winkelstein reappointed as deputy provost

    Winkelstein has taught at Penn for more than twenty years as a leader of interdisciplinary research, and has served as deputy provost since 2020.
    Coverage of civilian casualties in allied countries boosts support for U.S. involvement
    A news reporter reporting on the scene in Istanbul.

    A reporter covering events for television in Istanbul in 2013.

    (Image: iStock/SERCAN ERTÜRK)

    Coverage of civilian casualties in allied countries boosts support for U.S. involvement

    Research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center examines whether media coverage of foreign conflicts affects public opinion about U.S. military, diplomatic, and economic involvement.

    From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

    Weitzman’s Jules Dingle on social and environmental sustainability
    Jules Dingle.

    Architect and professor of practice of historic preservation at the Weitzman School Jules Dingle.

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    Weitzman’s Jules Dingle on social and environmental sustainability

    The Philadelphia architect and professor of practice in historic preservation joined the Weitzman School in the fall.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    The practice of art collection as a collaboration
    People looking at the After Modernism exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

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    The practice of art collection as a collaboration

    As part of an undergraduate course, Penn faculty and students curated an Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of works from the Neumann family’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art.
    Archaeological science, hands on
    Two students looking at slides under a microscope in a lab.

    Image: Courtesy of Omnia

    Archaeological science, hands on

    The Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, a joint endeavor between Penn Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum, celebrates 10 years of teaching students how to interpret the past in an interdisciplinary context.

    From Omnia