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Mural expresses culture and belonging in South Philadelphia
mural with many illustrations in bright colors on a long wall with a sidewalk and cars

Mural artist Shira Walinsky of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and fourth-grade teacher Lisa Yau, a fellow in the Penn-based Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, worked together with students to transform a blank wall across the street from the Francis Scott Key School entrance on 8th Street in South Philadelphia. (Image: Steve Weinik, courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia)

Mural expresses culture and belonging in South Philadelphia

Shira Walinsky of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and fourth-grade teacher Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau, a fellow in the Penn-based Teachers Institute of Philadelphia, worked with students to create a mural across from Francis Scott Key School in South Philadelphia.

Louisa Shepard

Regular folks in the Roman Empire
Kim Bowes and the cover of her book The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 with an illustration of a small wooden house in the country with a tree

Kimberly Bowes, archaeologist, classical studies professor, and director of the Integrated Studies Program, focuses not on the elite during the Roman Empire, but on the lived experience of the working poor and the economies that dominated their lives. Bowes has received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to expand her research.

Regular folks in the Roman Empire

Kimberly Bowes of the School of Arts & Sciences focuses on the lived experience of the Roman Empire’s working poor and the economies that dominated their lives 2,00 years ago.

Louisa Shepard

How bacteria store information to kill viruses (but not themselves)
A microscope image of a group of phages
A group of bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, imaged using transmission electron microscopy. New research sheds light on how bacteria fight off these invaders without triggering an autoimmune response. (Image: ZEISS Microscopy, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

How bacteria store information to kill viruses (but not themselves)

Researchers from the School of Arts & Sciences have discovered that the balance between fighting viruses and avoiding autoimmunity has a key role in shaping how bacteria “remember” old infections.

Luis Melecio-Zambrano

Building Penn Medicine’s Pavilion helped launch his career. Now, William Griffin is going places
Vice President, Kamala Harris stands at a ceremony with William Griffin and his wife, who is holding their son.

Vice President Kamala Harris, left, with William Griffin and his wife and son. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Building Penn Medicine’s Pavilion helped launch his career. Now, William Griffin is going places

Griffin participated in PennAssist, a program to help graduates of Philadelphia’s career and technical high schools and city residents enter the building trades, and made an impression on the construction management team for the Pavilion.

From Penn Medicine News

May graduate Ethan Kallett named a 2022 Yenching Scholar
Ethan Kallett standing outside on a sidewalk

Ethan Kallett, a May graduate of Penn’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies with a concentration in economics and management at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.

May graduate Ethan Kallett named a 2022 Yenching Scholar

Ethan Kallett has been awarded full funding to pursue an interdisciplinary master’s degree in China studies, with a concentration in economics and management, at the Yenching Academy of Peking University in Beijing.

Louisa Shepard

Urging caution but not panic on monkeypox
microscopic view of monkeypox virus

In the last few weeks, an outbreak of monkeypox, a relative of smallpox, has affected nearly 100 people across 12 countries.

Urging caution but not panic on monkeypox

While unfamiliar to many in the U.S., monkeypox and other poxviruses have been on the radar of researchers at the School of Dental Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine for decades.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Weitzman team helps protect and interpret Lincoln Memorial
Steps in front of the Lincoln Memorial in daylight.

Weitzman team helps protect and interpret Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is the subject of a new report commissioned by the National Park Service from the Urban Heritage Project at Weitzman.

From the Weitzman School of Design