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A unique but exemplary academic year: 2020-21 in review

A challenging yet successful year—Penn’s exceptional community of dedicated students, faculty, and staff overcame the world’s most significant obstacles to flourish, from outreach locally through volunteerism, to helping the world globally with mRNA technology. The 2021 academic year highlighted the best of Penn.

William Adelman appointed executive director of student health and counseling

Adelman, who has more than two decades of experience in adolescent medicine, will assist current leadership in creating a new, all-inclusive Student Health and Counseling Services.

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Report looks at referendums on Irish unification

A dozen experts, including Penn’s Brendan O’Leary, lay a framework for how any future unification vote can be fair and feasible.

An illustration and electron microscope image of the researchers’ ferroelectric field-effect transistor.

Engineers pave way for chip components that could serve as both RAM and ROM

The hurdle for making individual chip component devices has always been in manufacturing high-temperature ferroelectric materials. Now a team of researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science has shown a potential way around this problem.

Cartoon of a world map with people holding smartphones and magnifying glasses, images of bullhorns and frown faces and stock market signs indicating world news information being disseminated.

From facts to fake news: How information gets distorted

Wharton’s Shiri Melumad on how news becomes increasingly biased when it’s repeatedly retold.

At right, Regina Salmons sits in a boat holding an oar while wearing sunglasses and a blue uniform.

Alumna Regina Salmons selected to USRowing Olympic team

The 2018 graduate will compete in the women’s eight at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in late July.

Avatars of seniors sit around a seminar table in virtual reality in an International Relations course taught by Farah Jan.

Teaching in virtual reality transforms learning experience

Farah Jan of the International Relations Program taught a course in virtual reality during the spring semester, which students say broke up the monotony of Zoom meetings and aided in their learning.

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Journalism, law, and freedom of the press

Law student Peter Jacobs draws on his background as a professional journalist for his forthcoming Comment on freedom of the press in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

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How customers respond to socially responsible business marketing

Ike Silver, a Ph.D. candidate in the Wharton Marketing Doctoral Program, discusses his research on customer response to companies’ social impact initiatives.

a photograph of Penn's college hall framed by green leaves during the summer

2021 cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows for Academic Diversity named

The competitive program, managed by Office of the Vice Provost for Research, is designed to support early career researchers and scholars while enriching the Penn community.

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