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Two Penn affiliates named 2022 Soros Fellows
two students

Rishi Goel (left), a second-year student in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Kingson Lin, who graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the School of Arts & Sciences in 2017, have each received a 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

Two Penn affiliates named 2022 Soros Fellows

Rishi Goel, a second-year Perelman School of Medicine student, and Kingson Lin, who graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 2017, are among the 30 recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

Louisa Shepard

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

Social connections influence brain structure of rhesus macaques
Three adults rhesus macaques and two infants macaques sitting on a rock in a forest located on the island of Cayo Santiago.

A grooming chain of adult female rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico. Researchers in the Platt labs have studied this group of free-ranging nonhuman primates for more than a decade. This most recent work builds on previous research aimed at understanding the link between social connections and the brain. (Image: Lauren JN Brent)

Social connections influence brain structure of rhesus macaques

Researchers from Penn, Inserm, and elsewhere observed that the number of grooming partners an individual animal had predicted the size of brain areas associated with social decision-making and empathy.

Michele W. Berger

Lead toxicity risk factors in Philadelphia
a hand-held device is used to measure lead levels in a soil sample

Researchers used data on soil lead content to inform their analysis of the contributing factors to lead exposure risk around Philadelphia. Many samples were collected during Academically Based Community Service courses taught at Penn. (Image: Alex Schein)

Lead toxicity risk factors in Philadelphia

Two studies identify factors that correlate with high blood-lead levels in children, pointing to ongoing environmental justice issues that disproportionately fall on children of color and poorer communities in the city.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Annie Ma bridges the contemporary with classics
Woman in formal dress stands in front of blue geometric artwork

 Annie Ma foregrounding artwork by Jet LeParti.

Annie Ma bridges the contemporary with classics

Annie Ma, a junior in the School of Arts & Sciences, responded to the rise in anti-Asian violence with a renewed sense of identity and purpose, reconciling her love for classics with her love for contemporary East Asian culture.

Kristina Linnea García

HUP Pavilion’s halo lights up: A beacon for awareness
Magnolia Wang stands on an outdoor viewing point with HUP in the background illuminated in green and purple lights.

Magnolia Wang, a junior biology major, led a light-up initiative for international Rare Disease Day. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

HUP Pavilion’s halo lights up: A beacon for awareness

The tops of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Pavilion is periodically lit up in colors to support causes that matter to Penn Medicine, like Rare Disease Day and relief efforts for Ukrainians.

From Penn Medicine News

Penn Political Union in conversation with John Bolton
John Bolton sits on a stage at Irvine Auditorium with the president of the Penn Political Union

Former U.S. national security advisor John Bolton speaks with Lexi Boccuzzi, president of the Penn Political Union. (Photo: Courtesy of Eric Stabach)

Penn Political Union in conversation with John Bolton

The former U.S. national security adviser was on campus as part of a series of speaker events that promote the free expression of differing views and provide a forum for civil dialogue across the political divide.

Kristen de Groot

Solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC
Side of a building. Some of the window spaces are covered with bars. Others are covered with plants and other options for greening the building.

Solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC

The latest assessment offers both a harsh reality check and a path forward. Experts William Braham, Peter Psarras, and Michael Mann offer their thoughts.

Michele W. Berger

Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
four faculty faces

Four Penn faculty have been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are (left to right, top to bottom) Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English, all in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Four faculty have been named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows—Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Louisa Shepard , Louisa Shepard

Empowering refugees through education
Group of students face camera, arm in arm, in front of Perry World House

The student-led Penn for Refugee Empowerment organization offers tutoring and helps refugee-resettlement organizations with after-school programming, child care, home setup, and event assistance.

Empowering refugees through education

The student-led group Penn for Refugee Empowerment offers tutoring and helps refugee-resettlement organizations with after-school programming, child care, home setup, and event assistance.

Kristen de Groot