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A trio of events welcome world leaders to Penn
In recent weeks, the Center for Africana Studies hosted the president of Sierra Leone and a former president of South Africa, while Perry World House had a conversation with a former leader of Peru.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Experiencing extreme weather predicts support for policies to mitigate effects of climate change
An analysis by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds exposure to extreme weather is associated with support for policies intended to mitigate the effects of climate change.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Two Penn professors named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows
Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas of the School of Arts & Sciences are among 188 fellows chosen in the United States and Canada.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
NBC’s Lester Holt, Dan Slepian discuss raising the voices of the voiceless
As part of the Quattrone Center’s spring symposium at Penn Carey Law, the news veterans highlighted their work reporting on issues of mass incarceration, wrongful conviction, and criminal justice reform.
News・ Science & Technology
Bringing cognitive science in action to young minds
Penn Upward Bound high school students from West Philadelphia got a tour of the Penn Smart Aviary, GRASP Lab, and the Penn Vet Working Dog Center during a visit to Pennovation Works.
News・ Health Sciences
Study reveals inequities in access to transformative CAR T cell therapy
Penn Medicine researchers have assessed the percentage of patients from minority health populations and reveal inequities in access to transformative CAR T cell therapy.
News・ Campus & Community
Patricia M. Ruiz joins the Wellness team as executive director of Student Health and Counseling
Ruiz, a certified advanced practice nurse with expertise in college health, will lead the student-facing clinical team and will oversee the medical care and behavioral health services.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Picturing artistic pursuits
Hundreds of undergraduates take classes in the fine arts each semester, among them painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, printmaking and animation, photography and videography. The courses, through the School of Arts & Sciences and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an art form in a collaborative way.
News・ Sports
Penn celebrates National Student-Athlete Day
Staffers from the Pottruck Center for Student-Athlete Success lauded the University’s nearly 1,000 student-athletes on Monday with goodies and giveaways on Locust Walk.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Using sound recordings in psychiatric research
By using linguistics models to analyze game play, fourth-year student Sydney Sun is listening in on the ways environment shapes interaction.