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    Penn Electric Racing’s latest racecar
    Students gather on College Green, in front of Benjamin Franklin statue, to unveil an electric racecar.

    On March 28, Penn Electric Racing unveiled their 2025 vehicle, REVX, during a launch ceremony on College Green. This marks the team’s 10th custom-designed car since its founding in 2013 and its most sophisticated to date.

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    Penn Electric Racing’s latest racecar

    Penn Electric Racing, the student-led Formula Society of Automotive Engineers electric team, debuted its latest electric race car, REVX, on College Green on March 28. This marks the team's 10th custom-designed car since its founding in 2013 and its most sophisticated to date.

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    A simple way to boost math progress
    Angela Duckworth lecturing a class with a white board.

    “Our results showed that simple, low-cost nudges can help teachers support student progress in math,” says Penn psychology professor Angela Duckworth.

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    A simple way to boost math progress

    Researchers from Penn’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative and their collaborators conducted a megastudy to investigate whether low-cost nudges–informed by behavioral science–could help teachers accelerate student progress in math.

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    The wayfinder: Jessa Lingel creates community and belonging on campus
    Jessa Lingel stands in front of a black screen, her head cocked to the side. In the foreground (blurred) are a student's head and water bottle.

    “I see my role as a faculty member as helping other people navigate within this structure,” Lingel says. 

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    The wayfinder: Jessa Lingel creates community and belonging on campus

    As the new director of the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, Jessa Lingel creates community and belonging on campus.

    Kristina García

    Penn students get convention access in extraordinary political times
    students at the dnc pose for a group photo

    (On homepage) Eisenhower and Margolies have been taking Penn undergraduate students to the Democratic and Republican conventions every presidential cycle since 2000—except for 2020, due to the COVID pandemic—as part of their Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns course, offered every four years.

    (Image: Lex Gilbert)

    Penn students get convention access in extraordinary political times

    Undergrads who attended the Republican or Democratic convention this summer are breaking down their experiences during the Conventions, Debates, and Campaigns course, taught by David Eisenhower, Marjorie Margolies, and Craig Snyder.
    A discussion about speech, solidarity, and forgiveness
    A group of people listening at a table.

    (From left) Charles “Chaz” Howard, Anita Allen, Jane Holahan, Fariha Khan, Mei Long, and Josh Teplitsky.

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    A discussion about speech, solidarity, and forgiveness

    At an event at the School of Dental Medicine, members of the Penn community gathered to talk about the intersection of free speech and racism in academia.
    How food moves around cities
    Penn students walking through Norris Square Neighborhood Project’s community garden.

    (On homepage) Students walk through the Norris Square Neighborhood Project’s community garden.

    (Image: Eric Sucar)

    How food moves around cities

    Domenic Vitiello, an urban and regional planning expert, teaches classes that invite students to locations in and around Philadelphia to better understand how its denizens dine.
    Art Matters: ‘In the Garden’ by Jennifer Bartlett
    Lynn Dolby points to one of Jennifer Bartlett’s “In the Garden” panels.

    Lynn Smith Dolby, director of the Penn Art Collection. 

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    Art Matters: ‘In the Garden’ by Jennifer Bartlett

    During these hot days of summer, the cool of a garden water feature depicted in “In the Garden” by artist Jennifer Bartlett could provide some respite. Made of 270 one-foot-square steel plates painted with enamel, sections of the mural are installed in five locations in Van Pelt Library.
    Making virtual worlds
    Lorraine Ruppert wears virtual reality headset.

    Lorraine Ruppert wore a virtual reality headset and zoomed in and out of her virtual world, which shows sites of historical memory and resistance in Philadelphia's Chinatown.

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    Making virtual worlds

    In a class this spring, Jeffrey Vadala of the Penn Brain Science Center taught students to analyze virtual reality landscapes and create their own.
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