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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The secret lives of sand dunes
Douglas Jerolmack of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about sediment transport and sand dunes, which move in response to temperature and time and can travel several feet each year.
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Found: A 5.5-Million-Year-Old Ancestor of the Red-Eared Slider
Penn student Steven Jasinski found the remains of Trachemys haugrudi, an ancestor of the red-eared slider turtle, suggesting a “once greater diversity” of turtles than today.
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An Incredible Collection of Marian Anderson’s Life Is Getting Digitized
The Libraries are working to digitize Philadelphia opera singer Marian Anderson’s donated 525 boxes of personal archival materials.