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Trailblazing Penn alumna Sadie T.M. Alexander gets posthumous honor
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander outside Houston Hall in the early 20th century.

Sadie T.M. Alexander, seen here outside Houston Hall in the early 20th century, has been posthumously named a 2022 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association. (Image: Courtesy of University Archives)

Trailblazing Penn alumna Sadie T.M. Alexander gets posthumous honor

The American Economic Association named Alexander, who earned economics and law degrees at Penn a century ago, a 2022 Distinguished Fellow.

Kristen de Groot

Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022
A grid of people that includes, in the top row, Dorothy Roberts, Drew Weissman, and Katalin Karikó, and in the bottom row, Yale Goodman, Nicholas Sambanis, and Diana Kotzin.

Six researchers and faculty affiliated with the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Graduate School of Education, and Penn Law have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. (Images: Courtesy of [counterclockwise from top left] Penn Law, Peggy Peterson/Penn Medicine, Penn Engineering, Nicholas Sambanis, Graduate School of Education)

Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022

Faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Graduate School of Education, and Law School join more 260 honorees recognized for contributions to academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research.

Michele W. Berger

Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court on battling bias
Justice Goodwin Liu speaks at a podium in the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law

Justice Goodwin Liu of the California State Supreme Court gave the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity and the Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law. (Image: Courtesy of Alicia Savoly of FotoBuddy)

Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court on battling bias

Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court offered his take on implicit and structural bias during the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity and the Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law.

Kristen de Groot

The changing face of portraiture at Penn
portrait in leidy labs

Homepage image: A portrait in Leidy honors Nathan Francis Mossell, who, in 1882, became the first African American student to earn a medical degree from Penn. With its placement in the accessible portion of the building’s stairway, this new portrait gallery is highly visible to students, staff, faculty, and visitors who spend time in the Biology Department.

The changing face of portraiture at Penn

Efforts around campus aim to diversify those honored in portraits and rethink how to approach representation through art.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Seeking justice, support for incarcerated Pennsylvanians
Five people stand in a group smiling outside.

(Homepage image) Left to right: Carson Eckhard, Jessica Gooding, Terrance Lewis, Sarah Simon, and Natalia Rommen in Center City, Philadelphia, outside the Criminal Justice Center on the day of Jehmar Gladden’s hearing. (Image: Courtesy of Project HOPE)

Seeking justice, support for incarcerated Pennsylvanians

As winners of the 2021 President’s Engagement Prize, Carson Eckhard, Natalia Rommen, and Sarah Simon provide hope for wrongfully convicted people and a roadmap for inmates set for release.

Kristen de Groot

A Wharton expert examines cybersecurity hiring best practices
Book sleeve and picture of author.

Wharton lecturer and author, Leeza Garber, of “Can. Trust. Will: Hiring for the Human Element in the New Age of Cybersecurity.” (Image: Business Expert Press)

A Wharton expert examines cybersecurity hiring best practices

A new book by Leeza Garber of the Wharton School tackles the problem of cyber threats, with a focus on how employers can find and hire the right people.

Dee Patel

Anti-LGBTQ measures
Marchers waving gay pride flags make their way long a boardwalk with the skyline of St. Petersburg, Florida, in the background

Marchers make their way toward the St. Pete Pier in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Saturday, March 12, 2022 during a march to protest the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill passed by Florida's Republican-led legislature and now on its way to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk. (Image: Courtesy Martha Asencio-Rhine/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

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    Penn Law’s Tobias Wolff discusses the Florida “Don’t Say Gay” bill and a Texas directive on transgender children.

    Kristen de Groot

    Four takeaways from the ‘The Struggle for Women’s Human Rights’
    Two women sit on either side of a table onstage. The signage behind them reads, "Perry World House"

    LaShawn R. Jefferson, executive director of Perry World House (left) joined Rangita de Silva de Alwis, who teaches international women's rights at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, in a conversation on global women’s rights.

    Four takeaways from the ‘The Struggle for Women’s Human Rights’

    In an event marking Women’s History Month, the Law School’s Rangita de Silva de Alwis joined Perry World House’s LaShawn R. Jefferson in the discussion “Global Justice: The Struggle for Women’s Human Rights.”

    Kristina García

    Claire Finkelstein discusses Ukraine, NATO, and U.S. ethics and cybersecurity
    Jens Stoltenberg and Volodymyr Zelensky at a NATO press conference.

    Joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Dec. 16, 2021. (Image: NATO)

    Claire Finkelstein discusses Ukraine, NATO, and U.S. ethics and cybersecurity

    The Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy runs down the reality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and asks what ethical and legal responsibility NATO has, and what risks could NATO incur, from intervention.

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