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Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy
Three people stand in front of a bookcase full of books in burgundy binding, the man on the left is wearing judge robes and has his right hand in the air, the woman on the right is in judge robes and has her right hand in the air and left hand on a bible and a man in the middle wears a suit and tie, is holding the bible and is looking at the woman

Sandra Day O’Connor is sworn in to the Supreme Court by Chief Justice Warren Burger as her husband John O’Connor looks on.

(Image: Courtesy of U.S. National Archives)

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy

Three Penn experts—Annenberg Public Policy Center director Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Marci A. Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences, and former Penn Carey Law School dean Ted Ruger—share their thoughts on the history-making justice.

Kristen de Groot

Sharing the stories of community media makers in Philadelphia
A grid of six people taking part in the Telling Our Stories project.

Portraits from the “Telling Our Stories” project.

(Image: Kyle Cassidy/courtesy of the Annenberg School for Communication)

Sharing the stories of community media makers in Philadelphia

Doctoral candidate Antoine Haywood is documenting the work and lives of Black, Indigenous, and people of color media makers in Philadelphia.

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Two Penn schools partner with Camden County to launch virtual reality Narcan training
Four people, one on a stretcher, outside an ambulance learning how to administer Narcan.

Real-life EMT Barry Hunter, second from left, talks to actors David Blatt, Newton Buchanan, Bi Jean Ngo, and Britt Fauzer. Blatt portrayed a man overdosing, Ngo and Fauzer acted as people administering Narcan, and Newton played an EMT. Kyle Cassidy, one of the creators of the training video, says Hunter helped teach Newton how to enter the scene and what to carry.

(Image: Kyle Cassidy)

Two Penn schools partner with Camden County to launch virtual reality Narcan training

The Annenberg School for Communication and School of Nursing continue their efforts to train as many people as possible on administering the lifesaving overdose reversal medication.
Brain signals can predict how often a news article is shared online
Rendering of a brain with signals insinuating AI and data.

Image: iStock/Vitalii Gulenok

Brain signals can predict how often a news article is shared online

A new study from the Communication Neuroscience Lab finds that, even across cultures, neural models can reliably predict whether an article is popular on Facebook.

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New office supports the Penn postdoc experience
postdocs sitting at tables, raising hands

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New office supports the Penn postdoc experience

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs was established this past spring as a boost to the general postdoc community, providing centralized resources, information, and events.

Lauren Hertzler

National Academy of Medicine elects five new members from Penn 
Top row, from left to right: Kurt Thomas Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, and Susan L. Furth. Bottom row, left to right: Desmond Upton Patton and Robert H. Vonderheide.

Top row, from left to right: Kurt Thomas Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, and Susan L. Furth. Bottom row, left to right: Desmond Upton Patton and Robert H. Vonderheide.

(Images: Courtesy of Penn Medicine; Desmond Patton image by Eric Sucar)

National Academy of Medicine elects five new members from Penn 

Kurt T. Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, Susan L. Furth, Desmond Upton Patton, and Robert H. Vonderheide are among 100 new Academy members elected this year, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
Helping Philadelphia high school students communicate health research
Brittany Zulkiewicz teaches at a blackboard in a high school classroom.

Brittany Zulkiewicz discusses group dynamics and the process of working together.

(Image: Thandi Lyew)

Helping Philadelphia high school students communicate health research

Annenberg School doctoral students Thandi Lyew and Brittany Zulkiewicz worked with local teens through a Penn Graduate Community-Engaged Research Fellowship.

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Shifting the climate narrative
The sky glows yellow and purple after a strong summer storm in Philly.

On Sept. 12, PBS, WHYY, and the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media are set to gather a group of community leaders, journalists, science communicators, and scientists to explore the role of storytelling in climate change education.

(Image: iStock / Luke Chen)

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    • Shifting the climate narrative

    In a Q&A with Penn Today, Michael Mann of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media shares his views on the role of storytelling in the fight against climate change.