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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.

Louisa Shepard

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

Experiencing the pandemic from abroad
Person standing outside in front of trees and flowers hiding an iron fence.

Like many Penn students who are part of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business through the Wharton School and School of Arts & Sciences, rising junior Julia Mitchell opted to go abroad for a semester this past spring. Despite a change in plans due to the pandemic, Mitchell immersed herself in the culture and language of France. (Image: Courtesy Julia Mitchell) 

Experiencing the pandemic from abroad

When rising junior Julia Mitchell learned in March that France was about to shut down, she decided to immerse herself further in the language rather than come home, quarantining with her homestay family and finishing courses remotely.

Michele W. Berger

Maps, pandemics, and reckoning with history
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Maps, pandemics, and reckoning with history

Geospatial data has long been an important tool for scientists and scholars, but now, as society grapples with both coronavirus and a history of systemic racism, can maps help chart a path toward a brighter future?

Erica K. Brockmeier

‘Italian history on the table’
An old book is displays poultry butchering on one side; Italian text on the other

Attributed to Apicus, De re coquinaria is an Italian manuscript dating to the late fifteenth century. (Image: Kislak Center)

‘Italian history on the table’

Eva Del Soldato of the School of Arts & Sciences teaches Italian culture and language through the history of food.

Kristina Linnea García

Lessons from Hiroshima, 75 years later
Mushroom cloud rises over Hiroshima after the American atomic bombing in 1945

Aerial image of Hiroshima after the American atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945.

Lessons from Hiroshima, 75 years later

Penn Today asks scholars and experts to share their thoughts on the 75th anniversary of America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Kristen de Groot

Gouverneur Morris: A Founder, disabled American
Oil painting depicts two men in 18th century dress and powdered wigs at a desk, one sitting down, the other standing.

This 1783 oil painting by Charles Willson Peale depicts Gouverneur Morris (left) and fellow Founding Father Robert Morris. (Image: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Bequest of Richard Ashhurst.)

Gouverneur Morris: A Founder, disabled American

Best known for writing the “We the People” preamble to the Constitution, Gouverneur Morris also lived with painful disabilities. History doctoral candidate Jennifer Reiss looks at him through this underexplored lens.

Kristen de Groot