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Learning civil discourse and open-mindedness from high schoolers
gse student at carver high school

Learning civil discourse and open-mindedness from high schoolers

In the city’s first regional Ethics Bowl, facilitated by Penn philosopher Karen Detlefsen and Graduate School of Education doctoral student Dustin Webster, six local teams competed for a chance at Nationals.

Michele W. Berger

Helpful interactions can keep societies stable
A heron stands in a swamp

Mutualistic interactions abound in nature, yet classical ecology models predicted they shouldn’t. With a new approach, biologists from Penn clarify what the old predictions missed. (Image: Erol Akçay)

Helpful interactions can keep societies stable

New work by Erol Akçay of the School of Arts and Sciences and Jimmy Qian, a recent alum, challenges 50-year-old predictions that mutualistic interactions make a community unstable.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Tales of bringing the dead back to life
Writer and doctor Vikram Paralkar in his research lab.
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    • Tales of bringing the dead back to life

    Meet Vikram Paralkar, an oncologist at Penn Medicine who has received extraordinary attention for his new fiction novel, “Night Theater,” a story where a surgeon is asked to bring the dead back to life.

    Dee Patel

    Michael Horowitz named director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor
    Michael Horowitz

    Michael Horowitz, professor of political science, director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor. 

    Michael Horowitz named director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor

    As director of Perry World House, Horowitz will lead the center which was founded in 2015 for scholarly inquiry, teaching, research, international exchange, policy engagement, and public outreach on pressing global issues.
    Conserving the nation’s first chartered hospital
    a brick building with white detailing and in front is a green field with a statue surrounded by yellow flowers

    Conserving the nation’s first chartered hospital

    The Stuart Weitzman School of Design’s PennPraxis and the Center for Architectural Conservation will examine, assess, and prioritize the conservation of the buildings, grounds, and collections of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

    Erica K. Brockmeier, Michael Grant , John Infanti

    Engineers ensure quantum experiments get off to the right start
    Tzu-Yung Huang, Lee Bassett and David Hopper in the Quantum Engineering Laboratory.

    Tzu-Yung Huang, Lee Bassett and David Hopper in the Quantum Engineering Laboratory. (Image: Penn Engineering)

    Engineers ensure quantum experiments get off to the right start

    Research from the group of Lee Bassett in the School of Engineering and Applied Science describes a new approach for resetting and validating quantum states to reduce uncertainty in quantum computing experiments.

    Penn Today Staff