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Theatre students perform on international stage
Penn Theatre Arts Curio Performance

Portraying conjoined twins from the 19th century, junior Duval Courteau (left) and senior Aria Proctor take the stage at Penn during a final rehearsal of the play “Curio” before traveling to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.

Theatre students perform on international stage

Portraying dual roles of conjoined twins from the 19th century and a pair of modern-day researchers, junior Duval Courteau and senior Aria Proctor took the stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland with the one-act play, “Curio.”
Q&A with Tulia Falleti
Tulia Falleti

Tulia Falleti, director of Penn’s Latin American and Latino Studies program, the Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. (Photo: Eric Sucar)

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    • Q&A with Tulia Falleti

    The political science professor explains the events of the “other” 9/11, the coup of 1973 that displaced the democratically-elected president of Chile and instated a military dictator.
    Analyzing roadside dust to identify potential health concerns
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    Sampling containers collected airborne particles from the sides of highways in Germany as part of a study led by Penn’s Reto Gieré. The findings suggest that tire wear is a major contributor to roadside pollution. (Photo: Federal Highway Research Institute)

    Analyzing roadside dust to identify potential health concerns

    Reto Gieré is working with collaborators across the world to identify an overlooked but significant factor in traffic-related air pollution: Tiny bits of tires, brake pads, and road materials that become suspended in the air when vehicles pass over.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Collective grief over loss from Brazil’s National Museum fire
    Fire at the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, on September 2, 2018. Photo by Felipe Milanez

    Fire at the National Museum of Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, on September 2, 2018. Photo by Felipe Milanez

    Collective grief over loss from Brazil’s National Museum fire

    Members of the Penn Museum’s archeological community discuss the devastation felt over the destruction of an invaluable piece of world history.

    Michele W. Berger

    Floating art installation brings Schuylkill River history to life
    Floating Archives

    On three Saturday evenings in September, Jacob Rivkin, an artist-in-residence with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, will be floating on the Schuylkill River, displaying hand-drawn animations on a screen suspended between two canoes. His work reflects past and present narratives about the waterway. (Photo: Aidan Un)

    Floating art installation brings Schuylkill River history to life

    Jacob Rivkin, an artist-in-residence for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and an instructor in the School of Design, will present a public art installation on the Schuylkill River called “Floating Archives,” starting this weekend. (Video)

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    A squirmy, slimy, crunchy new potential staple of the American diet
    Eating Bugs

    Psychologist Paul Rozin thinks insects should be the next big food group in the U.S. All it takes, he suggests, is a little more exposure to move beyond the disgust factor.

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    • A squirmy, slimy, crunchy new potential staple of the American diet

    Psychologist Paul Rozin discusses how it’s possible to get past the ick factor of eating bugs (the key is exposure), and how the insects actually taste. It’s all part of his research focusing on the emotion of disgust as it relates to food.

    Michele W. Berger

    Sophomore and junior picnic focuses on friends
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    President Amy Gutmann poses at the photo booth with College Board members, including Sophomore College Board President Lizzie Youshaei and Junior College Board President Karim El Sewedy, at the sophomore and junior welcome back picnic.

    Sophomore and junior picnic focuses on friends

    More than 1,250 attended this year’s annual welcome back picnic hosted by the President’s Office on College Green.
    Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill
    Penn School of Design professor Francesca Ammon

    Francesca Russello Ammon, a PennDesign assistant professor of city and regional planning, focused on Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood for her research on historic preservation. (Photo by Eric Sucar, University of Pennsylvania Communications)

    Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill

    The histories of more than 1,500 properties in a storied Philadelphia neighborhood are now accessible on the new website, “Preserving Society Hill.” Working with digital-humanities specialists in the Price Lab and the Libraries, PennDesign’s Francesca Ammon created an interactive map to document this innovative case study in urban renewal.