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Researchers reach new heights with light-based levitation
Mohsen Azadi wears latex gloves and wields a scalpel while preparing a photophoretic levitation experiment.

Working in the Bargatin Group’s lab, Mohsen Azadi wields a scalpel while preparing a photophoretic levitation experiment. Unlike the microscopic particles that have been previously levitated with this techniques, the researchers’ flyers are big enough to manipulated by hand. (Image: Eric Sucar)

Researchers reach new heights with light-based levitation

Penn researchers are working to engineer nanoscale features on ultra-lightweight materials, finding the ideal combination that will allow those materials to lift themselves into the air using the energy provided by light.

Evan Lerner

Sherisse Laud-Hammond reflects on transformative year as Penn Women’s Center director
Sherisse Laud-Hammond stands with arms folded, smiling, in her office.

Sherisse Laud-Hammond, director of Penn’s Women Center.

Sherisse Laud-Hammond reflects on transformative year as Penn Women’s Center director

In 2020, SP2 alum Sherisse Laud-Hammond was named the new director of the Penn Women’s Center, a position in which she is the first Black woman and woman of color to serve.

From the School of Social Policy & Practice

Penn announces five 2021 Thouron Scholars
Faces of four students plus logo o Thouron Award

Penn announces its 2021 Thouron Scholars. From left, top: senior Emily Davis, senior Carson Eckhard, and 2019 graduate Ben Friedman. Bottom: senior Lauren Kleidermacher and senior Beau Staso.

Penn announces five 2021 Thouron Scholars

Four seniors and a 2019 graduate have received a Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each scholarship winner receives tuition for as long as two years, as well as travel and living stipends, to earn a graduate degree there.
Penn Museum interns explore jazz through family, protest, and creativity
Father plays keyboard while his daughter smiles. Bookshelves in background.

Music is “a kind of family love language” for Guthrie Ramsey (right) and his daughter Bridget Ramsey (left). “One of my deepest joys is that I’ve been able to pass that along,” he says. 

Penn Museum interns explore jazz through family, protest, and creativity

Penn Museum interns delve into “The Year of Jazz” through a monthly series of events exploring family, protest, and creativity. Music Professor Guthrie Ramsey and his singer/songwriter daughter Bridget Ramsey headline the first event on Feb. 28.

Kristina García

Building diversity into the venture capital ecosystem
Three masked individuals dressed in business attire sit at a desk, one is African American, discussing plans or a possible partnership or investment.

Building diversity into the venture capital ecosystem

A conversation with Wharton’s Stephanie Creary on the institutional roadblocks and funding gaps faced by minority and female founders.

From Knowledge at Wharton

The racial burden of cleaning voter rolls
An illustration of an American flag shows the stripes separating into a maze and one winding up at a ballot box

A new study by Marc Meredith and Katie Steele looks at how cleaning voter rolls impacts minorities.

The racial burden of cleaning voter rolls

A new study by Penn political scientists shows that errors in removing people from voter rolls in Wisconsin disproportionately impacted minorities.

Kristen de Groot

The joy and power of improvisation
unscripted group in front of college hall

The joy and power of improvisation

With The Unscripted Project, President’s Engagement Prize winners Philip Chen and Meera Menon create an improv curriculum and bring teaching artists to Philadelphia public school students.