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An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0
William Shakespeare.

Image: Adobe Stock/Tony Baggett

An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0

The 20-year-old Database of Early English Playbooks has become an invaluable resource for research on Shakespeare and many other playwrights of his time. The catalogue has been revised and relaunched as DEEP 2.0, with support from Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

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Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam
Group of students and professor pose for a photo in front of a restaurant.

Professor of history Fred Dickinson (back, right) with his students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

(Image: Courtesy of Fred Dickinson)

  • Q&A

    • Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam

    In a Q&A, Fred Dickinson of the Department of History discusses his semester as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Vietnam and building out Southeast Asian studies at Penn.
    Squire Booker appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
    Squire Booker

    Squire Booker is a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences and Perelman School of Medicine.

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    Squire Booker appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

    Through his work as an interdisciplinary chemist, Booker has has made advancements in human health and innovative new treatments of disease.
    Students fill critical behind-the-scenes Election Day roles for NBC News
    A group of people, seen from behind, watch election results from NBC News on a livestream display at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

    People watch an NBC News livestream showing poll results at Rockefeller Center in New York on Election Day 2024.

    (Image: AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

    Students fill critical behind-the-scenes Election Day roles for NBC News

    Three dozen undergraduates worked with the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies this year to track turnout, assemble results, and build on-air graphics.
    Is sustainable development an oxymoron?
    Harvested coffee beans drying in the sun on tables in coffee fields in Costa Rica.

    In Costa Rica, harvested organic coffee beans are dried in the sun.

    (Image: iStock/Andrzej Rostek)

    Is sustainable development an oxymoron?

    Teresa Giménez, director of the Spanish Language Program and lecturer in foreign languages in the School of Arts & Sciences, discusses the tensions at play when considering this type of growth in Latin America.

    From Omnia

    Top five election takeaways
    A side-scrolling election feed is displayed on the side of a building in Times Square in New York City. There are people below in the foreground.

    A scrolling news feed with election results on election night in Times Square, New York.

    (Image: Charles Guerin/Abaca/Sipa via AP Images)

    Top five election takeaways

    Stephanie Perry, exit polling manager for NBC News and executive director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies, shares insights into what drove voters in Tuesday’s election.
    Stringing together the history of an ancient Incan textile
    A colorful Quipu (abacus inca) hanging on a wall.

    Image: iStock/simonmayer

    Stringing together the history of an ancient Incan textile

    Kyle Marini, a Barra Dissertation Fellow in Art and Material Culture at The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, is developing an interdisciplinary methodology to recreate an ancient Incan rope to illuminate Inca modes of artistic representation.

    From The McNeil Center for Early American Studies

    New class of encrypted peptides offer hope in fight against antibiotic resistance
    Microscopic view of a string of amino acids.

    Image: iStock/Christoph Burgstedt

    New class of encrypted peptides offer hope in fight against antibiotic resistance

    New research by César de la Fuente finds that nearly 90% of peptides discovered exhibit significant antimicrobial properties, particularly through the disruption of bacterial membranes.

    From Penn Medicine News

    Who, What, Why: Cice Chen’s first-of-its-kind research conference for undergraduates
    Portrait of Guyin (Cice) Chen

    Guyin (Cice) Chen, a fourth-year chemistry, biochemistry, and neurobiology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, played a leading role in organizing the inaugural student-run National Research Conference at Penn.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Cice Chen’s first-of-its-kind research conference for undergraduates

    Cice Chen, a fourth-year chemistry, biochemistry, and neurobiology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, played a leading role in organizing the student-run National Research Conference at Penn.
    A monumental view of the Ten Commandments
    Two ancient Hebrew bibles open on a table.

    Image: iStock/Volodymyr Zakharov

    A monumental view of the Ten Commandments

    Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Assistant Professor Timothy Hogue sees the foundational text as more than just words.

    Susan Ahlborn