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Penn Ph.D. candidate named 2024 Queen Elizabeth Scholar
Penelope Lusk standing outside

Penelope Lusk, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education, has been awarded a 2024 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship, which covers all fees and provides a stipend to attend the University of Oxford in England for one year.

(Image: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships)

Penn Ph.D. candidate named 2024 Queen Elizabeth Scholar

Penelope Lusk, a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education, has been awarded a 2024 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship, which covers all fees and provides a stipend to attend the University of Oxford for a year.
Penn Global Seminar offers a look at Italy’s Palermo in Empires, Migrations, and Mafia
Students in front of Palermo's Teatro Massimo, the third-largest opera house in Europe. 

The class poses in front of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo, the third-largest opera house in Europe.

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Penn Global Seminar offers a look at Italy’s Palermo in Empires, Migrations, and Mafia

As part of the spring course Domenic Vitiello of the Weitzman School of Design and School of Arts & Sciences led students on a trip exploring Sicily’s capital and its eras of colonization, imperial rule, Mafia, and migration.

Kristen de Groot

The key to fixing AI bias and copyright infringement
Michael Kearns.

Michael Kearns, National Center Professor of Management & Technology.

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The key to fixing AI bias and copyright infringement

Penn Engineering’s Michael Kearns, National Center Professor of Management & Technology, questions whether model disgorgement can potentially solve a number of problems related to AI.

From Penn Engineering

Reconnecting on Penn’s campus
alumni hold Penn '99 signs and umbrella for Alumni Parade

Saturday’s Alumni Parade brought to Locust Walk—even in the rain—more than 1,000 guests from all reunion years.

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Reconnecting on Penn’s campus

This year’s Alumni Weekend included panels, parades, parties, and so much more.

Lauren Hertzler

Beth Linker’s new book explores the science of posture
A teenager with headphones slouching over their phone.

Image: iStock/Egoitz Bengoetxea Iguaran

Beth Linker’s new book explores the science of posture

A new book from history and sociology of science professor Beth Linker investigates how and why a panic around posture emerged in America in the 20th century.

From Omnia

The Immigration Act of 1924
A group of Chinese and Japanese women and children waiting to be processed, held in a wire mesh enclosure. Benches line either sides of the room, with a stool in the middle.

A group of Chinese and Japanese women and children waiting to be processed, held in a wire mesh enclosure at the Angel Island Internment barracks in San Francisco Bay. The Angel Island Immigration Station processed one million immigrants from 1910 to 1940, mostly from China and Japan.

(Image: AP Photo/File)

  • Q&A

    • The Immigration Act of 1924

    A century after a federal law established a national quota system on immigration, legal historian Hardeep Dhillon explains the significance and legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924.

    Kristina García