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Documentary filmmaking in the Himalayas
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Documentary filmmaking in the Himalayas

Supported by National Geographic and other grants, seniors Alina Peng and Charles Zhang traveled to Bhutan to discover how villagers are coping with the effects of water scarcity and climate change.
Ecuador’s vice president talks biodiversity protection
Two people sit in chairs on a stage. Ecuador's Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner speaks at Perry World House.

Ecuador’s vice president talks biodiversity protection

Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner spoke to a packed Perry World House about protecting the environment while balancing economic growth.

Kristen de Groot

The politics of health inequality
A person in a black dress and glasses stands against a wooden wall with arms crossed, looking at the camera, in the background is a huge window and people in chairs in front of the window.

Julia Lynch, associate professor of political science. Her new book "Regimes of Inequality: The Political Economy of Health and Wealth" looks at why health inequality as framed by politicians is impossible to tackle.

The politics of health inequality

The eight major Democratic candidates for president agree that Americans need expanded and more affordable health care. According to Julia Lynch, none of their proposed plans will solve the problem of heath inequality in the U.S.

Kristen de Groot

Penn’s pioneering mathematicians
side by side portraits of Dudley Weldon Woodard and William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor

Penn’s pioneering mathematicians

Two of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Dudley Weldon Woodard and William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor worked on fundamental problems in the field of topology and supported graduate-level math education for minority students.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Learning civil discourse and open-mindedness from high schoolers
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Learning civil discourse and open-mindedness from high schoolers

In the city’s first regional Ethics Bowl, facilitated by Penn philosopher Karen Detlefsen and Graduate School of Education doctoral student Dustin Webster, six local teams competed for a chance at Nationals.

Michele W. Berger

Helpful interactions can keep societies stable
A heron stands in a swamp

Mutualistic interactions abound in nature, yet classical ecology models predicted they shouldn’t. With a new approach, biologists from Penn clarify what the old predictions missed. (Image: Erol Akçay)

Helpful interactions can keep societies stable

New work by Erol Akçay of the School of Arts and Sciences and Jimmy Qian, a recent alum, challenges 50-year-old predictions that mutualistic interactions make a community unstable.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Michael Horowitz named director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor
Michael Horowitz

Michael Horowitz, professor of political science, director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor. 

Michael Horowitz named director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor

As director of Perry World House, Horowitz will lead the center which was founded in 2015 for scholarly inquiry, teaching, research, international exchange, policy engagement, and public outreach on pressing global issues.
Less and later marriage in South Korea
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Less and later marriage in South Korea

Sociologist Hyunjoon Park sheds light on why marriage rates are falling in South Korea, particularly among highly educated women and low-educated men.

Penn Today Staff

Karen Tani named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
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Karen Tani named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

Karen Tani has been named the University of Pennsylvania’s 24th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1. The announcement was made today by President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.