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Chinatown and community as a cornerstone
Will Chan leans against a reflective class in the Pan-Asian American Community House

As a Thouron Scholar and a Ph.D. candidate in theoretical physics, Will Chan also works as an advocate for building Asian communities at Penn as president of the Pan-Asian Graduate Student Association and the sponsorships and partnerships lead at the Ginger Arts Center, a youth-led organization in Philadelphia’s Chinatown.

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Chinatown and community as a cornerstone

Will Chan, a Thouron Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in theoretical physics, is also an advocate for building Asian communities.

Kristina Linnea García

Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi is a 2025 Rhodes Scholar
Om Gandhi.

Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship. 

(Image: Courtesy of Om Gandhi)

Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi is a 2025 Rhodes Scholar

Penn fourth-year Om Gandhi, from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship, which funds tuition and a living stipend for graduate study at the University of Oxford in England. He is among 32 American Rhodes Scholars, and an expected 100 worldwide.

Louisa Shepard

A Q&A with Penn’s Latin American Studies Librarian
Brie Gettleson leans her elbow on a shelf in the library stacks

Brie Gettleson, Latin American studies librarian in the Center for Global Collections, is now offering office hours at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.

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  • Q&A

    • A Q&A with Penn’s Latin American Studies Librarian

    Brie Gettleson speaks about her role as a subject librarian with the Penn Libraries and liaison for the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala
    Top row: Belinda Bentzin Buscher, Robert Cort, and Ira Hillman. Second row: Jennifer Krevit, Desiree Martinez, and Sally Jutabha Michaels. Bottom row: Marc Morial, Deepak Prabhkar, and Andre Dombroski.

    Top row: Belinda Bentzin Buscher, Robert Cort, and Ira Hillman. Second row: Jennifer Krevitt, Desiree Martinez, and Sally Jutabha Michaels. Bottom row: Marc Morial, Deepak Prabhakar, and Andre Dombroski.

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    Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala

    On Nov. 15, eight distinguished alumni will receive Awards of Merit, the Alumni Social Impact Award, and the Creative Spirit Award, and André Dombrowski will receive the Faculty Award of Merit.
    An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0
    William Shakespeare.

    Image: Adobe Stock/Tony Baggett

    An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0

    The 20-year-old Database of Early English Playbooks has become an invaluable resource for research on Shakespeare and many other playwrights of his time. The catalogue has been revised and relaunched as DEEP 2.0, with support from Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

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    Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam
    Group of students and professor pose for a photo in front of a restaurant.

    Professor of history Fred Dickinson (back, right) with his students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

    (Image: Courtesy of Fred Dickinson)

  • Q&A

    • Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam

    In a Q&A, Fred Dickinson of the Department of History discusses his semester as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Vietnam and building out Southeast Asian studies at Penn.
    Squire Booker appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
    Squire Booker

    Squire Booker is a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences and Perelman School of Medicine.

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    Squire Booker appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

    Through his work as an interdisciplinary chemist, Booker has has made advancements in human health and innovative new treatments of disease.
    Students fill critical behind-the-scenes Election Day roles for NBC News
    A group of people, seen from behind, watch election results from NBC News on a livestream display at Rockefeller Center in New York City.

    People watch an NBC News livestream showing poll results at Rockefeller Center in New York on Election Day 2024.

    (Image: AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

    Students fill critical behind-the-scenes Election Day roles for NBC News

    Three dozen undergraduates worked with the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies this year to track turnout, assemble results, and build on-air graphics.
    Is sustainable development an oxymoron?
    Harvested coffee beans drying in the sun on tables in coffee fields in Costa Rica.

    In Costa Rica, harvested organic coffee beans are dried in the sun.

    (Image: iStock/Andrzej Rostek)

    Is sustainable development an oxymoron?

    Teresa Giménez, director of the Spanish Language Program and lecturer in foreign languages in the School of Arts & Sciences, discusses the tensions at play when considering this type of growth in Latin America.

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