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Penn Glee Club goes to Italy
Members of Penn’s Glee Club in a square in an Italian city.

The Glee Club members did extensive touring, including to St. Peter’s Square and St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

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Penn Glee Club goes to Italy

Rome, Milan, and Naples became the stage for the Penn Glee Club during its 10-day tour of Italy. Thirty-seven members went on the trip, mostly vocalists, but also members of the band and the tech crew.
2020 graduate Nia Akins on her way to Paris Olympics
2020 Penn graduate Nia Atkins, center, won the 800 meter finals at the 2024 Olympic trials.

Nia Akins (center), won the 800 meter final at the USA Track & Field Olympic trials on Monday night. She will be headed to the Paris Olympics along with Allie Wilson (right), who came in second, and Juliette Whittaker (left), who came in third.

(Image: Courtesy of USATF)

2020 graduate Nia Akins on her way to Paris Olympics

Akins won the 800 meter final on Monday night. After finishing sixth, May graduate Isabella Whittaker has a good chance of being a part of the 4x400 relay pool.

Penn Today Staff

The limits of ChatGPT for scriptwriting
Robots around a larger-than-life-size typewriter.

ChatGPT routinely censors premises and scripts from history’s most-watched TV shows.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Engineering/mathisworks via Getty Images)

The limits of ChatGPT for scriptwriting

A paper co-authored by experts at Penn Engineering found that ChatGPT’s overzealous content moderation could potentially limit artistic expression.

Ian Scheffler

What can polls tell us in 2024?
The American flag as an opinion poll with percentages.

Image: Gracia Lam for OMNIA

What can polls tell us in 2024?

John Lapinski, the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Political Science and director of the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies, talks polling in this presidential election year.

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Enhancing ‘representational equity’ on Wikipedia
People at laptops at a table, one screen open to Wikipedia

Image: Danielle Scruggs/The New York Times/GDA via AP Images

Enhancing ‘representational equity’ on Wikipedia

As part of the inaugural Wiki Education Humanities & Social Justice Advisory Committee, Heather J. Sharkey, a professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, will continue working to improve Wikipedia content on historically underrepresented topics.

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Mindfulness, monasticism, and women in Thai Buddhism
Katherine Scahill poses with her arms crossed in front of the Lerner Centeron Penn's campus.

Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill poses in front of the Lerner Center.

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Mindfulness, monasticism, and women in Thai Buddhism

Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill’s research engages with three communities of female Buddhist monks (bhikkhunī) in Thailand and their chanting traditions.

Kristen de Groot

Connecting the West Philadelphia community to careers 
west philly skills initiative med worker

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Connecting the West Philadelphia community to careers 

The West Philadelphia Skills Initiative is a workforce development partnership between the University City District, Penn Medicine, and the University committed to develop career opportunities for local residents.

From Penn Medicine Service in Action