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Penn announces nine 2022 Thouron Scholars
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Five University of Pennsylvania seniors and four alumni have received a 2022 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Left to right from the top: senior Ayina Anyachebelu, 2020 graduate Michael John, senior Anjali Mahajan, 2020 graduate Sabine Nix, senior Robert Novak, 2021 graduate Trevor Núñez, senior Andrew Orner, senior Lawrence Phillips, and 2019 graduate Mark Rinder. 

Penn announces nine 2022 Thouron Scholars

Five seniors and four recent alumni have received a 2022 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each scholarship recipient receives tuition for up to two years, as well as travel and living stipends, to earn a graduate degree there.

Louisa Shepard

Four takeaways from the IPCC’s report on climate adaptation and vulnerability
Person in SCUBA fear floating over bleached coral reefs.

Evidence of coral reef bleaching in a seabed off Hachijo-jima Island in Tokyo, November 2020. The latest report from the IPCC focuses on how climate change is affecting coral reefs like this and other biodiversity, as well as people and places. (Image: The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images)

Four takeaways from the IPCC’s report on climate adaptation and vulnerability

The assessment gets explicit about the effect of climate change on people, places, and ecosystems. Experts from Penn weigh in on what it means.

Michele W. Berger

Pandemic shifts: Oliver Kaplan on outing and education policy
Man in blue jacket on Penn's campus in late afternoon winter light.

Going into Penn, Kaplan thought he would go into law consulting. But when he thought about what would be most beneficial, his career focus shifted to education policy.

Pandemic shifts: Oliver Kaplan on outing and education policy

The pandemic led Oliver Kaplan, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, to reconsider his academic path. He changed his major to philosophy and now hopes to shape educational policy for LGBTQ+ students.

Kristina Linnea García

The West’s sanctions on Russia
A line of people wearing winter coats and hats extends down a sidewalk in St. Petersburg, Russia, as they wait to use an ATM

People stand in line to withdraw U.S. dollars and euros from an ATM in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 25, 2022. Ordinary Russians faced the prospect of higher prices and crimped foreign travel as Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine sent the ruble plummeting, leading uneasy people to line up at banks and ATMs. (Image: AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

  • Q&A

    • The West’s sanctions on Russia

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, professor of economics and director of the Penn Initiative for the Study of the Markets, discusses the severity of the sanctions, the effects so far, and the potential reverberations for the rest of the globe.

    Kristen de Groot

    Former Indian foreign secretary discusses India, China, and the ‘Asian Century’
    Saran shakes hands with diplomat

    Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei, left, shakes hands with Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran during their meeting in New Delhi, India, Monday, Jan. 24, 2005. (AP Photo/Ajit Kumar)

    Former Indian foreign secretary discusses India, China, and the ‘Asian Century’

    In a lecture presented by the Center for the Advanced Study of India, former Foreign Secretary of India Shyam Saran discussed the relationship between India and China, as well as how the Russian invasion of Ukraine may shift geopolitics.
    Body Empowerment Project is a health-centered approach to self-care
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    Body Empowerment Project is a health-centered approach to self-care

    Supported by the President’s Engagement Prize, two 2021 graduates founded a nonprofit focused on eating disorder prevention, bringing workshops to Philadelphia public schools, taught by Penn student volunteers.

    Louisa Shepard

    Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon on the war in Ukraine
    Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon.

    Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, Ph.D. student in history. (Image: OMNIA)

    Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon on the war in Ukraine

    The Ph.D. student in history, and former resident of Ukraine discusses the nation, how things got to this point, and what’s being overlooked in the discussion about the war.

    Alex Schein , Susan Ahlborn

    Solidarity walk for Ukraine
    Person holding a Ukrainian flag at a solidarity with Ukraine rally on Penn’s campus.

    The organizers played a recording of the Ukrainian national anthem to conclude the event. Many participants joined in, singing.

    Solidarity walk for Ukraine

    More than 100 members of the University community joined a student-led walk in support of Ukraine, rallying awareness and calling for action.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Hostility among friends can come from surprising places
    Two friends walking outside with backpacks and books.

    Hostility among friends can come from surprising places

    Sherelle Ferguson, and Annette Lareau, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor in the Social Sciences, find that “hostile ignorance” can come from surprising places.

    From Omnia

    Russia’s attack on Ukraine, through the lens of history
    Two people walk in front of a wall engraved with scenes of WWII soldiers in Kyiv, Ukraine

    People walk through the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv in 2022. (Image: STR/NurPhoto via AP Images) 

  • Q&A

    • Russia’s attack on Ukraine, through the lens of history

    Historian Benjamin Nathans offers background on Putin’s use of history in justifying his war in Ukraine

    Kristen de Groot