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Designing with resilience to prepare for a changing world
Satellite image of port of Semarang with vulnerable coastal areas labeled "Industrial Greenbelt" "Future-ready Port" "Resilient Kampung, "Re-Water"

Representatives from the Water Center at Penn heard proposals from a team with One Architecture & Urbanism on how to help the Indonesian port city of Semarang deal with current water challenges and plan for a sustainable future. (Image: One Resilient Semarang)

Designing with resilience to prepare for a changing world

Urban designers joined with architects, engineers, city planners, sociologists, and other experts to share strategies for adapting to rising sea levels, fiercer storms, and sinking shorelines, coinciding with the launch of the Certificate in Urban Resilience at the School of Design.

Katherine Unger Baillie

In Japan, students learn to savor the moment
Penn students visiting a temple in Japan

Nine students spent a week traveling in Japan. From left: John Macri, Stephen Damianos, Ruhy Patel, Jackie Bein, Kiana Murphy, Roksana Filipowska, Susan Chor, Julio Erdos, and Brianna Arscott Grant.

In Japan, students learn to savor the moment

Nine students spent a week in Japan though a Penn Biden Center program. After a whirlwind tour that included a visit to Hiroshima and a home stay, students say the experience was life-changing.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

Quakers outlast Owls
Sophomore guard Michae Jones shoots a shot against Temple.

Quakers outlast Owls

The women’s basketball team felled Temple 71-62 on Wednesday, their first home win against the Owls since 2015.
‘The conversation America needs’
Wesley Clark and Tom Ridge at College Hall

‘The conversation America needs’

Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Wesley Clark, a retired four-star general of the U.S. Army, and former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who served as the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, joined the Penn Political Union in College Hall on Wednesday for a wide discussion.

Lauren Hertzler

Through comics, profs draw path to visual literacy
Robert Berry and JC Cloutier read comics in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Adjunct Professor Robert Berry, left, and Assistant Professor of English Jean-Christophe Cloutier, who teach the undergraduate course Making Comics, enjoy two comics that are part of Van Pelt-Dietrich's collection, available to students, faculty, and staff.

Through comics, profs draw path to visual literacy

In Making Comics, an English course for undergraduates, students learn the theory of comic books while working with others to make them—all in the name of visual literacy.
The ACA in 2019: Will it face a reckoning?
small shopping basket with coins and sleeve of pills on a shelf

The ACA in 2019: Will it face a reckoning?

Wharton’s Mark Pauly, Eric Clemons and Robert Field discuss what lies ahead for the Affordable Care Act in 2019.

Penn Today Staff

Engineers 3D print smart objects with ‘embodied logic’
venus fly trap

Engineers 3D print smart objects with ‘embodied logic’

Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have taken inspiration from the sorts of systems embodied in Venus fly traps, utilizing stimuli-responsive materials and geometric principles to design structures that have “embodied logic.”

Penn Today Staff

25 years of integration, innovation, and ideals
Aerial view of Penn Medicine Complex

25 years of integration, innovation, and ideals

2018 marked 25 years since the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) was first established—a milestone that would undoubtedly make the institution’s founder, Benjamin Franklin, proud.

Penn Today Staff