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Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world
Gobhanu Korisepati standing with his arms crossed.

Korisepati is involved in many student clubs on campus, including as president of Penn Microfinance. 

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Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati is making an impact around the world

Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati co-founded the international microfinancing nonprofit Sustaining Women in Financial Turmoil while in high school, and, as a student at Penn, he continues as executive chairman.

Louisa Shepard

Who, What, Why: Alexander Schrier on Uzbekistan’s role in a new world order
Alexander Schrier looks down from an upper floor of a building, standing behind waist-high glass panels.

Fourth-year Alexander Schrier has been studying Uzbekistan and Central Asian diplomacy for his senior thesis in international relations.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Alexander Schrier on Uzbekistan’s role in a new world order

    The fourth-year international relations student is researching Uzbekistan and Central Asian diplomacy, with a summer spent talking with taxi drivers and U.S. ambassadors on the ground in Tashkent.
    Coverage of civilian casualties in allied countries boosts support for U.S. involvement
    A news reporter reporting on the scene in Istanbul.

    A reporter covering events for television in Istanbul in 2013.

    (Image: iStock/SERCAN ERTÜRK)

    Coverage of civilian casualties in allied countries boosts support for U.S. involvement

    Research from Penn’s Annenberg Public Policy Center examines whether media coverage of foreign conflicts affects public opinion about U.S. military, diplomatic, and economic involvement.

    From the Annenberg Public Policy Center

    The practice of art collection as a collaboration
    People looking at the After Modernism exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

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    The practice of art collection as a collaboration

    As part of an undergraduate course, Penn faculty and students curated an Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of works from the Neumann family’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art.

    Louisa Shepard

    Archaeological science, hands on
    Two students looking at slides under a microscope in a lab.

    Image: Courtesy of Omnia

    Archaeological science, hands on

    The Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials, a joint endeavor between Penn Arts & Sciences and the Penn Museum, celebrates 10 years of teaching students how to interpret the past in an interdisciplinary context.

    From Omnia

    Study shows drop in life expectancy in the Gaza Strip
    Displaced Palestinians outside their tents near the seaside in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

    Displaced Palestinians outside their tents near the seaside in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip in January 2025, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

    (Image: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP)

    Study shows drop in life expectancy in the Gaza Strip

    A collaborative team of international researchers estimate that between Oct. 2023 and Sep. 2024 compared to pre-war levels, life expectancy in the Gaza Strip almost halved.
    24th annual Lecture in Social Justice
    Orlando Patterson speaks at a podium. Behind him, a screen shows the five fundamental principals of social beings

    “Dr. King fought for and defined, in real terms, the true meaning and purpose of freedom,” Orlando Patterson said. 

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    24th annual Lecture in Social Justice

    The 24th annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice featured sociologist Orlando Patterson of Harvard University, known for his work on the history of race and slavery, in conversation with Michael Hanchard of Africana Studies.

    Kristina Linnea García

    An online resource for learners across the Italian language community
    Blurred figures of people walk across a public square in Milano, Italy.

    The Italian language learning tool PRIMA was developed by faculty at Penn to help show students the diversity in Italian language and culture.

    (Image: iStock/LeoPatrizi)

    An online resource for learners across the Italian language community

    The Pedagogical Repository for Italian Media Activities, or PRIMA, helps students and faculty explore Italian language and culture by using voices and imagery that better represent the culture.
    A less clumpy, more complex universe?
    Dark energy telescope with star trails

    A less clumpy, more complex universe?

    Researchers combined cosmological data from two major surveys of the universe’s evolutionary history and found that it may have become “messier and complicated” than expected in recent years.
    The social structures that shape AI
    A person using AI on computer keyboard.

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    The social structures that shape AI

    There’s more hype than ever around artificial intelligence, but Assistant Professor of Sociology Benjamin Shestakofsky says it’s important to fully examine how the new technology fits into broader society.

    Marilyn Perkins