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    2024 Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching celebrated
    People huddled together in front of bright window in the Graduate Center.

    Karen Detlefsen, left, pictured with the winners of the 2024 Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching.

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    2024 Penn Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching celebrated

    Ten winners received the Prize, which takes nominations from undergraduates and recognizes master's students and Ph.D. candidates.
    Penn students, staff work the polls on primary day
    A collection of folded Penn T-shirts and sheets of "I voted" stickers in different languages are arranged on a table.

    Tuesday was primary day in Pennsylvania, and Penn’s campus played host to three polling places where students and the community could cast their ballots.

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    Penn students, staff work the polls on primary day

    Penn’s campus played host to eight polling places where students and community members cast their ballots, with a team of trained poll workers keeping the action running smoothly.

    Kristen de Groot

    Inside the GOP
    Three people sit at a table in front of a small video camera on a tripod as the person on the right gestures with her hands.

    Former Trump staffers Alyssa Farrah Griffin (center) and Sarah Matthews (right) described their time in the White House and their vision for a new GOP in a discussion moderated by historian Brian Rosenwald (left).

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    Inside the GOP

    Alyssa Farrah Griffin and Sarah Matthews spoke about their experiences working for the ex-president and their views of a new GOP in a Red and Blue Exchange discussion moderated by Brian Rosenwald.

    Penn Today Staff

    Penn scientists reflect on one year of ChatGPT
    Panel on ChatGPT.

    Caption: René Vidal, at the podium, introduces the event "ChatGPT turns one: How is generative AI reshaping science?" Bhuvnesh Jain, left at the table, moderated the discussion with Sudeep Bhatia, Konrad Kording, Andrew Zahrt, and Nick Pangakis. 

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    Penn scientists reflect on one year of ChatGPT

    The Data Driven Discovery Initiative hosted an interdisciplinary panel discussion with Penn researchers in chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, and political science.
    What’s That? Fox-Fels Hall
    Red brick exterior of Fox-Fels Hall on Penn campus, a Georgian style mansion with green shutters and white trim.

    The exterior of Fox-Fels Hall on Walnut Street.

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    What’s That? Fox-Fels Hall

    ‘The mansion’ is home to the Fels Institute of Government, Penn's graduate school for public policy and public management. 

    Kristen de Groot

    The Asian American studies program doubles in size
    Andrea Cherng speaks to a roomful of students in the McNeil Atrium

    Andrea Cherng addresses students at the ASAM welcome lunch in September, joined by David Eng (left) and Fariha Khan (right). 

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    The Asian American studies program doubles in size

    Three core and two affiliated faculty members with expertise in English, sociology, history, anthropology, and education join the Asian American studies program.

    Kristina García

    Celebrating community at Penn’s 267th Commencement
    students cheer at the end of commencement

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    Celebrating community at Penn’s 267th Commencement

    Thousands of students and their biggest supporters—those who President Liz Magill described as “force multipliers”—flooded campus Monday for a sunny ceremony for the ages.
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