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Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
A hand-coiled clay jar by pueblo artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s Native American Voices gallery. The abstract surface design references water and its use in the U.S. Southwest.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history
New hires like Marcia Chatelain and Vaughn Booker in Africana Studies and William Sturkey in the History Department are bolstering Penn’s position as one of the best places for the field of African American history.
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Penn reports success on Climate and Sustainability Action Plan goals
Sustainability Director Nina Morris recently shared with the Board of Trustees an update on progress.
News・ Science & Technology
A centimeter-scale quadruped leverages curved-crease origami
Researchers led by Cynthia Sung in Penn Engineering have crafted a more simplified approach to the design and fabrication of these robots.
News・ Campus & Community
A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election
Penn Leads the Vote was on hand at the Houston Hall polling location, one of several polling places on campus where voters made their voices heard for the 2023 general election.
News・ Sports
Hosley runs roughshod over Cornell for 261 yards and two scores
The first-year running back scored on two long runs in Penn’s 23-8 victory on Saturday, including the longest offensive touchdown play in school history.
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‘Our Changing Environment’
Economist R. Jisung Park and political scientist Alice Xu address climate change in an event hosted by the School of Social Policy & Practice.
News・ Health Sciences
Channeling resilience and passion toward a vision for the future
Between her third and fourth years at the Perelman School of Medicine, Fulbright Scholar Zonía Moore worked out of Hospital Manuel Gea González in Mexico City.
News・ Campus & Community
Moving forward, together
At the Nov. 3 Stated Meeting of the Trustees, President Liz Magill said that she is a president “for all people in this community,” and encouraged finding common ground to support and protect each other and the University’s mission.
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Vaccine confidence falls as belief in health misinformation grows
A new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that finds that the number of Americans who think vaccines approved for use in the United States are safe dropped to 71% from 77%.