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A watershed created to power New York City
The village of Gilboa in 1919.

The village of Gilboa in 1919. (Image: NYC Municipal Archives Digital Collections)

A watershed created to power New York City

Anna Lehr Mueser, a doctoral candidate in history and sociology of science, studies memory, loss, and technology in the New York City Watershed and the villages that were destroyed to construct it.

From Omnia

Addressing systemic inequities linked to readmission for minority stroke patients
African American person laying in a hospital bed with a blood pressure monitor, a medical professional in a white coat stands beside the bed.

Addressing systemic inequities linked to readmission for minority stroke patients

Racial minorities are disproportionately affected by stroke. A new study reveals readmissions between Black and white stroke patients may be linked to the level of nurse staffing in the hospitals where they receive care.

From Penn Nursing News

Cooking as community-building in the New College House West Quaker Kitchen
People in line in a cafe kitchen

President Amy Gutmann (left) lines up with students in the new Quaker Kitchen to sample a special snack prepared by Chef Daniel Stern (right) for a welcome event at the New College House West residence hall. The Office of the President is funding a food-centered pilot program to bring students together through culinary endeavors.

Cooking as community-building in the New College House West Quaker Kitchen

The Office of the President is funding a food-centered pilot program to bring students together through culinary endeavors in New College House West’s Quaker Kitchen.
New mathematical tools to study opinion dynamics
interconnected nodes with squares depicting information above them

An artistic rendering of a discourse sheaf, with vector spaces (depicted as rectangles) connected to a network (shown as a series of circles, or nodes, and connecting lines, or edges). (Image: Robert Ghrist)

New mathematical tools to study opinion dynamics

Using a class of network structures known as discourse sheaves, researchers describe a new, flexible framework for studying how opinions change over social networks.

Erica K. Brockmeier

The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image celebrates 25 years
15th century illustration of a person atop a stone tower overseeing a landscape.

Illustration from “La Voie de Povreté ou de Richesse,” by Jacques Bruyant from the 15th century. (Image: Penn Libraries News)

The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image celebrates 25 years

The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image has spent the past 25 years digitizing collections from the Penn Libraries, partnering cultural institutions, and private collections.

From Penn Libraries

1 in 3 Americans say they might consider abolishing or limiting Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court building.

1 in 3 Americans say they might consider abolishing or limiting Supreme Court

A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that more than a third of Americans say they might be willing to abolish the Supreme Court or have Congress limit its jurisdiction.

From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

Sports psychologist talks athletes and mental health
On a wooden bench outside of the Palestra, Andrea Wieland sits while wearing a blue vest with the works Penn on it.

Sports psychologist talks athletes and mental health

Andrea Wieland, the associate athletic director for sports performance at Penn Athletics, discusses athletes and mental health, Simone Biles, Ben Simmons, the yips, and the importance of seeing athletes as whole people.