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The Sachs Program announces winners of AAPI grants
Palawan seascape and boat with clouds in distance

A photo of Palawan. Islands in the province of Palawan were the first to come under Spanish influence and is where archaeologists have found the first signs of human life in the Philippines. The region serves as a starting point for telling indigenous stories in Jo Tiongson Perez’s children’s book that will retell eight indigenous Philippine stories. (Image: Michael Perez)

The Sachs Program announces winners of AAPI grants

Fourteen projects will be funded as part of the program’s responsive call for proposals in support of Asian-American and Pacific Islander artists at Penn.
U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained
US soldiers holding guns are running behind a tank with an American flag on top in sand in Syria

The 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team on the ground in Syria. (Image: The National Guard)

  • Q&A

    • U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained

    Sara Plana, a 2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellow at Perry World House, shares her thoughts on the airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed militias and the bigger picture of what’s happening in the region.

    Kristen de Groot

    The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’
    covid global map

    As a global pandemic, COVID-19 spread across the world. But it didn’t hit everyone equally. “Being healthy is essential to human flourishing,” says Jennifer Prah Ruger, who advocates for shared norms in health governance to address global inequalities. (Image: Martin Sanchez, also featured on homepage)

    The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’

    Experts across the University weigh in on which lessons the pandemic drove home and what immediate measures are needed to prevent future loss.
    Global Policy Forum focuses on ‘People, Planet, and Prosperity’
    A man in a suit and tie and glasses sits in profile in a white chair as he looks at three video screens in front of him: one showing an illustration of a light buld and the words global policy forum, the middle screen showing a man with glasses in front of a book case and the last screen on the right showing another man with glasses, grey hair and a beard

    The virtual Global Policy Forum featured leaders and thinkers from across the globe, including co-hosts Paolo Magri (in chair, left), Penn’s Jim McGann (center screen) and former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (right screen).

    Global Policy Forum focuses on ‘People, Planet, and Prosperity’

    Penn’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, headed by Jim McGann, co-hosted the event that shared insights and proposals on the priorities of the G20 ahead of the group’s fall meeting 

    Kristen de Groot

    Leniqueca Welcome uses photography to explore the human experience
    Three dancers doing back bands with one leg raised on a sunlit beach.

    “The ways their bodies come together to make a continuous form against the backdrop of the water is simply poetic to me,” says Welcome. (Image: Leniqueca Welcome/OMNIA)

    Leniqueca Welcome uses photography to explore the human experience

    Welcome, a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology with specialties in urban studies and experimental ethnography, is a member of the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA).

    Blake Cole

    Giant comet found in outer solar system
    an image of the night sky with an object circled and annotated with Bernardinelli-Bernstein (C/2014-UN271)

    Giant comet found in outer solar system

    The discovery of the comet estimated to 100-200 kilometers across was made by Penn researchers following a comprehensive search of data from the Dark Energy Survey. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is the most distant comet ever discovered and possibly the largest seen in modern times.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Going yard with Leah Allen
    Wearing her blue Penn jersey, Leah Allen pumps her fist while running around the bases.

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    Going yard with Leah Allen

    The 2017 alumna, the softball team’s all-time home run leader, discusses her record-setting career in the Red & Blue.
    The alternative fuel life of everyday items
    Karen Goldberg, left, and Drew Newman, right.

    Karen Goldberg, Vagelos Professor in Energy Research, and Drew Newman, doctoral candidate in chemistry. (Image: OMNIA)

    The alternative fuel life of everyday items

    Researchers in the Goldberg Group, including Karen Goldberg, Vagelos Professor in Energy Research, and Drew Newman, doctoral candidate in chemistry, focus on alternative fuel sources for items that are part of everyday life.

    From Omnia