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Behind the scenes of election night projections
John Lapinski surrounded by Penn undergraduate workers with NBC's Elections Unit Penn Political Science Professor John Lapinski, third from right, poses with Penn undergraduate students working at the NBC Elections Unit in November 2016. (Photo: Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies)
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    • Behind the scenes of election night projections

    John Lapinski, director of elections at NBC and the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Political Science at Penn, discusses projecting elections and what to expect from the midterms.
    Penn alumnus and staff member named TIAA Difference Maker
    Jarrett Stein in a kitchen

    Jarrett Stein is director of social enterprise and health partnerships at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships.

     

    Penn alumnus and staff member named TIAA Difference Maker

    The two-time Penn alumnus and staff member at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships has been selected as a TIAA Difference Maker 100 honoree for his efforts to improve nutrition for the young people of West Philadelphia.
    Writing with purpose
    Lorene Cary leading a discussion in her safekids class

    Writing with purpose

    Students in Lorene Cary’s creative writing course focus on voting, midterm elections, and exploring the big questions of their generation.
    Revisiting the rate of medical exemptions following California vaccine bill
    young child getting a vaccine shot in the arm

    Revisiting the rate of medical exemptions following California vaccine bill

    The proportion of California kindergarten students who received all required vaccines at the start of school increased a year after the state eliminated nonmedical vaccine exemptions for school entry—but not without problems.

    Penn Today Staff

    Rogers Smith on birthright citizenship
    Rogers Smith stands, smiling, by bookshelves in his office.

    Rogers Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science. (Image: Scott Spitzer)

    Rogers Smith on birthright citizenship

    Penn Today discussed the intricacies surrounding the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment with Rogers Smith, a constitutional law scholar and president of the American Political Science Association.
    Getting science right in the fake news era
    closeup of stack of newspapers
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    • Getting science right in the fake news era

    Over his career as a science journalist, Carl Zimmer has seen legitimate science reporting denied and illegitimate science news taken as fact. In advance of a talk at Penn, Zimmer discusses the problem of misinformation and offers tips for avoiding being fooled by bogus science stories.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Keeping goal with Kitty Qu
    Qu poses at goalpost on Rhodes Field

    Keeping goal with Kitty Qu

    The junior on the women’s soccer team talks about the team’s unprecedented success and why she welcomes the pressure of being a goalkeeper.