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  • ‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight

    Yaroub Al-Obaidi, an Iraqi artist and scholar who settled in Philadelphia in 2016, gives Penn Museum visitors an insider’s view of the Middle East Galleries and creates connections with U.S. Iraq War veterans.
    Yaroub Al-Obaidi gestures to artifacts in the Penn Museum's Middle East Galleries while a group of visitors looks on.
    Yaroub Al-Obaidi gestures while explaining artifacts to a tour group in the Middle East Galleries.

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  • A world shaped by water and access
    Three people test water below a sand dam.

    Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.

    (Image: Courtesy of Griffin Pitt)

    A world shaped by water and access

    Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.

    Oct 8, 2025