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‘Alone Again in Fukushima’
People in hazmat suits walk around the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2013

Experts with the International Atomic Energy Agency depart Unit 4 of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on April 17, 2013 as part of a mission to review Japan’s plans to decommission the facility. (Image: Greg Webb/IAEA)

‘Alone Again in Fukushima’

On the 10th anniversary of the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear facility destruction, a film and discussion hosted by the Center for East Asian Studies looked at the calamity’s reverberations.

Kristen de Groot

Global women’s rights 
Five people sit together in a meeting; sign behind them reads "UN Women"

UN Women Executive Director and Under Secretary General  Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka meets with the chairperson of CEDAW, taken on March 11, 2014. (Image: UN Women/Ryan Brown)

Global women’s rights 

Rangita de Silva de Alwis makes the case for ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the United States.

Kristina García

A conversation with Stacey Abrams
Zoom call with a woman in a pink dress on the left and man in blue suit on the right

Stacey Abrams and Ben Jealous during their virtual talk at Penn.

A conversation with Stacey Abrams

The Georgia politician sat down with Ben Jealous, visiting scholar and former NAACP leader, to discuss topics from gerrymandering to romance novels in a virtual discussion.

Kristen de Groot

Honoring the life and legacy of a trailblazing civil rights activist
Sadie T.M. Alexander in a graduaction cap and gown.

Sadie T.M. Alexander in an academic gown on June 15, 1921. (Image: Penn Archives)

Honoring the life and legacy of a trailblazing civil rights activist

Penn Law is paying tribute to the legacy of Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from the Law School, by launching three new full tuition scholarships created in her honor.

From Penn Carey Law

Myanmar coup, explained
Members of Myanmar police stand by a cordoned off blockade area on the street.

A police cordon in Myanmar on Feb. 1, 2021. (Image: OneNews)

Myanmar coup, explained

Laura Edwards, an LL.M. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and Myanmar expert, shares her take on the crisis.

Kristen de Groot

More thoughts on the state of American democracy
george floyd protest

More thoughts on the state of American democracy

In part two of this series, five Penn experts offer their insights on public health, election legitimacy, student loan debt, and more.

Michele W. Berger, Erica K. Brockmeier, Kristen de Groot, Louisa Shepard

The outlook for science under the Biden-Harris administration
International leaders celebrate the Paris Climate Accord

President Biden made good on his promise to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord on his first day in office. The agreement was originally adopted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015. (Image: UNclimatechange)

The outlook for science under the Biden-Harris administration

Penn Today spoke with experts in various areas of science and environmental policy about what they anticipate will shift now that President Biden has assumed the nation’s leadership.

Katherine Unger Baillie