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What’s That? Locust Walk Compass
Students walk around a compass embedded in Locust Walk on Penn campus.

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What’s That? Locust Walk Compass

The granite compass embedded in Locust Walk has become the source of a campus legend.

Kristen de Groot

Marking a monumental death
A person is shown holding a photo of Mahsa Amini, a woman who was killed in police custody in Iran in 2022.

A portrait of Mahsa Amini held during a rally Oct. 1, 2022 calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran’s morality police.

(Image: AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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    • Marking a monumental death

    In honor of the first anniversary of the killing of Mahsa (Jîna) Amini in Iran and the subsequent outpouring of protest, Penn will host a two-day conference on violence against women.

    Kristen de Groot

    Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection
    Penn undergrad Claire Jun gestures to the sign on the front of the building in Seoul, South Korea where she interned this summer.

    Claire Jun poses in front of the building where she did a health policy internship in Seoul, South Korea, at the Research Institute at the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

    (Image: Courtesy of Claire Jun)

    Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection

    Third-year student Claire Jun used her FLAS fellowship this summer to participate in the study abroad program at Yonsei University and a health-policy internship at the National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.

    Kristen de Groot

    A historian’s look at the ‘illusions of progress’
    Man in laborer clothes holds shovel, smokes a pipe and looks at his paycheck by a sign reading "USA Work Program WPA"

    A Works Progress Administration worker receives his paycheck, 1939.

    (Image: Courtesy of the National Archives)

    A historian’s look at the ‘illusions of progress’

    A new book by historian Brent Cebul looks at the successes and failures of American liberalism, from the New Deal to the 1990s and beyond.

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    Penn Carey Law’s Jasmine E. Harris on conservatorships
    A person wearing a t-shirt with Britney Spears face on it holds a pink flag with the slogan #FreeBritney.

    A Britney Spears supporter waves a “Free Britney” flag outside a court hearing concerning the pop singer’s conservatorship at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse on June 23, 2021, in Los Angeles.

    (Image: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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    • Penn Carey Law’s Jasmine E. Harris on conservatorships

    Harris, an expert in disability and anti-discrimination law, discusses the history of conservatorship agreements, how they can be problematic, and why now is the time to do more than just overhaul the system.

    Kristen de Groot

    Resisting the resource curse
    Political Science Ph.D. candidate Mikhail Strokan stands in front of a sign with a seal that reads "Tashkent."

    Mikhail Strokan is a Ph.D. candidate in political science.

    Resisting the resource curse

    Political science Ph.D. candidate Mikhail Strokan’s work looks at the idea that countries abundant in such natural resources as oil and natural gas wind up struggling economically despite the bounty—and examines why some of these countries fare better than others.

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    A question of neutrality: Switzerland’s role in 19th-century imperialism
    Penn rising fourth-year Sophie Mwaisela stands in front of a brick archway with her arms crossed.

    Sophie Mwaisela is a rising fourth-year in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in history.

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    A question of neutrality: Switzerland’s role in 19th-century imperialism

    History undergraduate Sophie Mwaisela traveled to Geneva this summer to conduct research for her honors thesis.

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    Becoming American: A ceremony for new citizens
    Newly naturalized U.S. citizens raise their right hands to take the oath of citizenship in the Harrison Auditorium at the Penn Museum, with officials on a stage in front of them and an American flag on the right side of the stage.

    The naturalization ceremony at the Penn Museum’s Harrison Auditorium featured 37 new American citizens.

    (Image: Courtesy of Penn Global)

    Becoming American: A ceremony for new citizens

    In keeping with its motto of “bringing the world to Penn and Penn to the world,” Penn Global hosted a naturalization ceremony on campus for 37 new citizens.

    Kristen de Groot

    Reinventing customary law in medieval France
    Historian Ada Kuskowski listens to a speaker sitting next to her at a table.

    Ada Maria Kuskowski is a medieval and legal historian. 

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    • Reinventing customary law in medieval France

    A new book by historian Ada Maria Kuskowski of the School of Arts & Sciences traces the formation of customary law as a field of knowledge in medieval Europe.

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