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She did it herself
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Penn Libraries' exhibition “Ok, I’ll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid Women in the American Wilderness” features 145 items from the vast collection by alumna Caroline Schimmel, including Annie Oakley’s trunk. Regan Kladstrup (above) has worked with Schimmel on her donation of 7,000 volumes of fiction to the Kislak Center. 

She did it herself

The Penn Libraries exhibition “OK, I’ll Do It Myself” with selections from the collection of alumna Caroline Schimmel features 145 books, photographs, manuscripts, artwork, and memorabilia on women in the American wilderness, even Annie Oakley’s trunk.
What happens when someone’s skin color and racial identity don’t align?
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Haley Pilgrim is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Sociology Department in the School of Arts and Sciences. She studies racial identity.

What happens when someone’s skin color and racial identity don’t align?

Doctoral student Haley Pilgrim is trying to answer this question through her research, which focuses on second-generation multi-racial populations.

Michele W. Berger

With parents and families, Gutmann stresses the ties that bond
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Penn President Amy Gutmann addressed parents and families inside Irvine Auditorium to kick off Family Weekend 2018.

With parents and families, Gutmann stresses the ties that bond

President Amy Gutmann spoke about Penn’s unprecedented successes and core commitments—and about the importance of relationships in making it all possible.

Skin cream use OK’d during radiation therapy
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Skin cream use OK’d during radiation therapy

A new study challenges common advice given to patients about whether topical creams increase radiation dose during cancer treatment.

Penn Today Staff

Wrestling team grapples on the green
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Penn wrestlers spar with each other during the “Grapple on the Green” exhibition at College Green on Friday, Oct. 19.

Wrestling team grapples on the green

The Penn wrestling team headed outside on to officially kick off its season with its annual “Grapple On The Green” open practice on College Green.

Penn Today Staff

Political intimidation, at-risk media, and the future of journalism
Barbie Zelizer, director of the Center for Media at Risk

Barbie Zelizer, the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, is also the director of the Center for Media at Risk.

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    • Political intimidation, at-risk media, and the future of journalism

    In the wake of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death, Barbie Zelizer, director of the Center for Media at Risk, discusses how journalists and other digital media practitioners can better prepare for working in today’s climate and why, for that to happen, the media culture needs to shift.

    Michele W. Berger

    Cuba libre
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    Penn students met with artist Salvador González Escalona at the Afro-Cuban cultural center, Cayo Hueso, in Havana during the summer abroad course in Cuba. (Photo by Will Schmenner)

    Cuba libre

    The complexities of Cuba’s history and the response by artists were the focus of the summer abroad course “Penn-in-Havana: Visual Culture and Public Art in Cuba,” taught by art historian Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, and funded by a Making a Difference in Diverse Communities grant.
    The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’
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    The IREF project “The Inhabited Sea,” led by Nikhil Anand in the School of Arts and Sciences and Anuradha Mathur in the School of Design, examines in part how populations such as the dock workers of Mumbai (pictured above) understand and negotiate their relationship with the rising seas that surround them. Photo by Rudolph A. Furtado, from Wikimedia Commons.

    The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’

    During the next two years, Penn IREF will award as much as $2 million in matching research grants to Penn faculty to stimulate and support research activity in India.