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Penn announces five 2021 Thouron Scholars
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Penn announces its 2021 Thouron Scholars. From left, top: senior Emily Davis, senior Carson Eckhard, and 2019 graduate Ben Friedman. Bottom: senior Lauren Kleidermacher and senior Beau Staso.

Penn announces five 2021 Thouron Scholars

Four seniors and a 2019 graduate have received a Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each scholarship winner receives tuition for as long as two years, as well as travel and living stipends, to earn a graduate degree there.
Penn Museum interns explore jazz through family, protest, and creativity
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Music is “a kind of family love language” for Guthrie Ramsey (right) and his daughter Bridget Ramsey (left). “One of my deepest joys is that I’ve been able to pass that along,” he says. 

Penn Museum interns explore jazz through family, protest, and creativity

Penn Museum interns delve into “The Year of Jazz” through a monthly series of events exploring family, protest, and creativity. Music Professor Guthrie Ramsey and his singer/songwriter daughter Bridget Ramsey headline the first event on Feb. 28.

Kristina García

The racial burden of cleaning voter rolls
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A new study by Marc Meredith and Katie Steele looks at how cleaning voter rolls impacts minorities.

The racial burden of cleaning voter rolls

A new study by Penn political scientists shows that errors in removing people from voter rolls in Wisconsin disproportionately impacted minorities.

Kristen de Groot

The joy and power of improvisation
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The joy and power of improvisation

With The Unscripted Project, President’s Engagement Prize winners Philip Chen and Meera Menon create an improv curriculum and bring teaching artists to Philadelphia public school students.
In conversation with MSNBC’s ‘Go-to data guy’
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More than 100 members of the Penn community attended an online event where national political correspondent Steve Kornacki shared insights on his career path, his takeaways from the 2020 election, and what polling and election nights might look like in the future.

In conversation with MSNBC’s ‘Go-to data guy’

Members of the Penn community heard from Steve Kornacki, national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, in a conversation moderated by John Lapinski.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Finding beauty in everything, through a camera lens
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Finding beauty in everything, through a camera lens

Karen Reivich of Penn’s Positive Psychology Center turned to photography to reconnect to herself during the pandemic. It helped her discover a new way of seeing the world.

Michele W. Berger

Behavior Change for Good unveils effective strategies to boost vaccination rates
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Katy Milkman co-directs the Behavior Change for Good initiative with Penn’s Angela Duckworth. Milkman is also the James G. Dinan Endowed Professor and a professor of operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School. She has a secondary appointment in the Perelman School of Medicine. (Image: Eric Sucar)

Behavior Change for Good unveils effective strategies to boost vaccination rates

Texts with “reserved for you” messaging boosted flu vaccine rates by up to 11%.

Michele W. Berger

Five Penn faculty named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows
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Five Penn faculty named 2021 Sloan Research Fellows

The fellowship recognizes extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of scientific leaders.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Logistics of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout
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A nurse holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a mRNA-based vaccine approved for emergency use by the FDA in December.

Logistics of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Penn experts demystify the process of shipping a vaccine and, ultimately, getting it into arms.