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Penn Reading Project gets freshmen on the same page
Professors Michael Weisberg and David Fox leading Penn Reading Project

Michael Weisberg, professor and chair of philosophy, and David Fox, director of New Student Orientation, lead the discussion with the freshmen class on the Penn Reading Project and the Provost’s “Year of Why?”

Penn Reading Project gets freshmen on the same page

The Penn Reading Project, in its 28th year, is designed to bring the freshmen class together on one academic project. The Class of 2022 read Thornton Wilder’s “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” as part of the Provost’s “Year of Why?”

Louisa Shepard

Returning to Vietnam
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Photo: David Thai

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Returning to Vietnam

A child of Vietnamese refugees, David Thai has returned to his family’s homeland as a Fulbright Scholar, where he will teach English at the Hoang Le Kha High School for Gifted Students, in the southwestern region of Vietnam, a few hours from where his mother grew up.
Through the Knight grant, a new vision for public art
AR Monument Lab

Marisa Williamson, Sweet Chariot, a 2017 augmented reality project from Monument Lab. (Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Philadelphia)

Through the Knight grant, a new vision for public art

Members of PennDesign, Penn Libraries, and the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation are curating a project to reimagine art and new digital technology.
Cinema studies profs predict this year’s Emmy winners
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Cinema studies profs predict this year’s Emmy winners

Cinema and media studies lecturers discuss the tricky and nuanced vetting process that precedes announcing winners at the television awards show, including the politics, business, and social issues surrounding the current “Golden Age” of television.
A neural link between altruism and empathy toward strangers
University of Pennsylvania psychologist Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz studies extraordinary altruism through people who have donated a kidney to a stranger.

University of Pennsylvania psychologist Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz studies extraordinary altruism through people who have donated a kidney to a stranger.

A neural link between altruism and empathy toward strangers

Studying the brain activity of people who have donated a kidney to a stranger, psychologist Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz found a clear link between real-world altruism and empathy, particularly in regard to the pain and fear of strangers.

Michele W. Berger

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.”

Louisa Shepard

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