Filip Manjevic, a second-year economics major from Helsingborg, Sweden, (left) poses with other attendees at the Thanksgiving gathering held by Arvind Bhusnurmath (fourth from left), a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science.
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Thanksgiving meal program provides food, family, friends, and fun
Penn’s Assembly of International Students is matching international undergrads and graduate students with a faculty or staff partner who invites them to a Thanksgiving meal.
Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center, and Joshua Teplitsky, director of the Jewish Studies Program, started walking and talking as an act of campus diplomacy in the wake of the violence in Israel and Gaza.
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Locust walks: Making connections and bridging differences
Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center, and Joshua Teplitsky, director of the Jewish Studies Program, started walking and talking as an act of campus diplomacy in the wake of the violence in Israel and Gaza.
Tyson Smith (center) lectures during a recent session of the course that looks at the veteran experience that's often left out of the mainstream narrative.
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Violence and stigmatized heroes
The new SNF Paideia course taught by Tyson Smith looks at incarcerated veterans and their experiences to understand the intersection of the military, criminal justice, and health.
Issue 1 signs sit outside Knox Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. Issue 1 specifically declares an individual’s right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including abortion.
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Election night takeaways
Political scientist Marc Meredith and PORES director Stephanie Perry, who both worked on NBC’s Decision Desk on Election Night with more than a dozen Penn undergrads, share their thoughts on what Tuesday’s results could mean for 2024.
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.
Workers in Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., in 1959.
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A look at former Penn economics professor Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning work
Penn economists Jere Behrman, who overlapped with Goldin during her time at Penn, and Petra Todd, whose students have been motivated by Goldin’s work, talk about the importance of her research.
At Perry World House, (left to right) Lauren Bernstein, founder and CEO of The Culinary Diplomacy Project, Zahav Chef Michael Solomonov, Perry World House Interim Director Michael Weisberg, and celebrity chef Amanda Freitag.
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Celebrity chefs Amanda Freitag and Michael Solomonov discuss culinary diplomacy
Perry World House hosted a lively conversation moderated by former Visiting Fellow Lauren Bernstein that highlighted how chefs can promote cross-cultural awareness through global culinary engagement.
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu in a conversation with Washington Post foreign affairs reporter Adam Taylor.
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‘A New Age of Nuclearity? Great Powers and Greater Consequences’
Perry World House’s 2023 Global Order Colloquium took a deep dive into current nuclear issues, looking at how the world will manage nuclear threats amid growing geopolitical tension, climate change challenges, and international conflict.
