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COVID, politics, and voting by mail
Two U.S. postal service mail boxes sit side by side on a sidewalk with trees behind them and a the first few floors of a red brick building on the left in the background

Voting by mail has become a hot topic this election cycle, and a team of researchers at Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES) looked at how partisanship is affecting perceptions of it.

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    • COVID, politics, and voting by mail

    New research conducted by the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES) looks at how much support for vote by mail was impacted by the pandemic and efforts by partisan elites to politicize the discussion.

    Kristen de Groot

    Campus workers deliver a ‘team effort’
    Man pushes hand cart carrying mail to be sorted with Penn Mail Services trucks in background.

    Campus workers deliver a ‘team effort’

    As Penn settles into Phase II of research resumption and the fall semester gears up, essential workers keep the campus running. Penn Today spoke with three workers about their “new normal.”

    Kristina García

    Reflections on suffrage: The 19th Amendment at 100
    Two women in 1920 standing in fur lined coats and fancy hats, one holds a newspaper called Woman’s Journal and Suffrage News.

    Reflections on suffrage: The 19th Amendment at 100

    Penn Today reached out to experts from centers and schools across the University to look at suffrage through the lens of history, this election, and the fight yet to come. 

    Kristina García , Kristen de Groot

    An expert take on the Israel-UAE accord
    Two flags of Israel flying alongside one flag of the United Arab Emirates.
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    • An expert take on the Israel-UAE accord

    Ian Lustick, political science professor who specializes in Middle East politics, gives his take on the significance of the U.S.-brokered agreement and what it could mean for the region.

    Kristen de Groot

    Bringing green, healing spaces to the streets of West Philadelphia
    Painted facade of One Art building in daylight in West Philadelphia

    As part of her internship with One Art, rising junior Alice Cochrane collaborated with One Art Director Malaika Gilpin as well as members of BioPhilly, a local design network, to create renderings for a new, green facade for the West Philadelphia community center. (Image: Alice Cochrane, Maram Moushmoush/BioPhilly)

    Bringing green, healing spaces to the streets of West Philadelphia

    As part of a Summer Humanities Internship with One Art, rising junior Alice Cochrane helped design a new façade for the “urban eco arts village” and community center.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Southeast Asian megadrought dating back 5,000 years discovered in Laos cave
    A group of archaeologists and excavators standing and sitting at the entrance of a cave.

    Penn archaeologist Joyce White (center) has been working in Laos since 2001 with teams like the one shown here. Discovering evidence of a 1,000-year drought in a Laos cave was unexpected, she says, but does answer some questions about the Middle Holocene, a period she’d previously described as the “missing millennia.” (Pre-pandemic image: Courtesy of Joyce White)

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    • Southeast Asian megadrought dating back 5,000 years discovered in Laos cave

    In a Q&A, Penn archaeologist Joyce White discusses the partnership with paleoclimatologists that led to the finding, plus possible implications of such a dramatic climate change for societies at that time.

    Michele W. Berger

    Iranian, American health experts share coronavirus experiences in rare talk
    A hand in a medical glove is see holding a face mask with the words "Mask Tehran."

    A gloved hand holds a mask reading "Mask Tehran." Penn's Middle East Center recently held a rare conversation between Iranian and American health officials about the coronavirus crisis.

    Iranian, American health experts share coronavirus experiences in rare talk

    The coronavirus crisis and the move to online events presented Penn’s Middle East Center with a rare opportunity to foster the first public conversation about the virus between senior health officials in Iran and counterparts in the United States.

    Kristen de Groot

    Price Lab for Digital Humanities launches eight-episode podcast series
    Three people

    The Price Lab for Digital Humanities created an eight-episode podcast series featuring interviews by director Stewart Varner (right) with digital experts. Clay Colmon (left) of Online Learning spoke about Afrofuturism in an episode edited by May graduate and intern Kelcey Gibbons (center).

    Price Lab for Digital Humanities launches eight-episode podcast series

    The Price Lab for Digital Humanities created an eight-episode podcast series featuring interviews by managing director Stewart Varner and digital experts. Four paid student interns worked as editors on episodes, making it possible to complete the series in time for a summer release.
    Improving the quality of life in cities
    compiled head shots of five gordon fellows, from top left clockwise Carson Eckhard, Nick Zhu, Sarah Jones, Melina Lawrence, and Anna Duan

    Improving the quality of life in cities

    The Gordon Fellowship program, currently in its second year, provides urban studies students with an opportunity to find summer internships that connect theory with practice.

    Erica K. Brockmeier