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Penn Glee Club performs on its first European tour as a gender-inclusive choir
Penn Glee Club performs on its first European tour as a gender-inclusive choir
On the first traveling tour as a gender-inclusive choir, the Penn Glee Club performed before audiences that included alumni in a Paris ballroom and passers-by on the streets of Barcelona.
Overturning Roe disproportionately burdens marginalized groups
Overturning Roe disproportionately burdens marginalized groups
For low-income people and people of color, lack of access to safe abortions in the U.S. will have a range of health and financial ramifications, compounding factors like poverty and systemic racism.
Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’
Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’
In her latest book, Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French colony of Louisiana.
The Great War and memory
The Great War and memory
History professor Warren Breckman took his Penn Global Seminar students to the Western Front area of northern France and Belgium to look at World War I through the intersections of personal and public memory.
Penn Abroad: Rising senior Kiersten Thomas in Sweden
Penn Abroad: Rising senior Kiersten Thomas in Sweden
Rising senior Kiersten Thomas, a health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences studied abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Can China stop climate change?
Can China stop climate change?
In a political science course and new book, Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives Scott Moore unfurls the layers of China’s approach to sustainability and technology.
What the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means
What the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means
Marci Hamilton, a Penn Professor of Practice and founder and CEO of the nonprofit think tank CHILD USA, offers thoughts as this news unfolds.
Wale Adebanwi on democratic reform in Africa
Wale Adebanwi on democratic reform in Africa
The Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies teaches an undergraduate course, Popular Culture and Youth in Africa. He discusses successes and challenges of democratic reform in post-Cold War Africa.
Debate as social empowerment
Debate as social empowerment
From debating a team in an upstate New York prison to helping the formerly incarcerated in Philadelphia, the Penn Debate Society sees debate as a tool to help others help themselves
Who, What, Why: Tamia Harvey-Martin presents her film debut
Who, What, Why: Tamia Harvey-Martin presents her film debut
Tamia Harvey-Martin premieres “A Foolproof Guide to Relationships,” a short film about asexuality, at the LGBT Center on June 28.
In the News
AP News
FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans
Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences says the FBI has rarely become involved in sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church.
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National Catholic Reporter
Abuse survivors praise Supreme Court for declining to review California’s Child Victims Act
Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts and Sciences comments on how victim advocates were not surprised by a Supreme Court decision on California’s Child Victims Act but that it sends a message to the church.
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The Wall Street Journal
Sweden’s Einride to test autonomous trucks on U.S. roads
Steve Viscelli of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the freight sector moving more rapidly toward autonomous transport than the passenger-car business.
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NPR
Supreme Court rules Maine's tuition assistance program must cover religious schools
Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences says the Supreme Court has a more theocratic than secular viewpoint.
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The Conversation
Tumblr’s enduring appeal reveals the potency of the web’s cultural memory
Ph.D. candidate Jeanna Sybert of the Annenberg School for Communication contemplates Tumblr's unique place in internet culture.
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