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Penn’s Fels Institute Hosts National Public Policy Challenge March 22

Penn’s Fels Institute Hosts National Public Policy Challenge March 22

The Final round and announcement of the winner of the 4th Annual National Invitational Public Policy Challenge, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government, will be held March 22 at the National Constitution Center.

Penn Senior and SOCEANA Founder Finds Open Doors

Penn Senior and SOCEANA Founder Finds Open Doors

By Julie McWilliams University of Pennsylvania senior Tess Michaels has found herself in an enviable situation not unlike game show contestants who must pick Door No. 1, Door No. 2 or Door No. 3.
Founders of Russian Art Collective Pussy Riot to Speak at Penn

Founders of Russian Art Collective Pussy Riot to Speak at Penn

WHO:            Masha Alekhina and Nadya Tolokonnikova, Russian conceptual artists and founding members of the art collective Pussy RiotWHAT:          “A Conversation With Pussy Riot” 

Jeanne Leong

Penn Researchers Develop Way of Making Light-bending ‘Raspberry-like Metamolecules’

Penn Researchers Develop Way of Making Light-bending ‘Raspberry-like Metamolecules’

The field of metamaterials is all about making structures that have physical properties that aren’t found in nature. Predicting what kinds of structures would have those traits is one challenge; physically fabricating them is quite another, as they often require precise arrangement of constituent materials on the smallest scales.

Evan Lerner

Penn Researchers Show How Rivers Creep and Flow to Shape Landscapes Over Time

Penn Researchers Show How Rivers Creep and Flow to Shape Landscapes Over Time

By Madeleine Stone  @themadstoneRivers drive the evolution of Earth’s surface by eroding and depositing sediment. But for nearly a century, geologists have puzzled over why theoretical models, which use principles of physics to predict patterns of sediment transport in rivers, have rarely matched observations from nature.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Learning to Lead at Penn

Learning to Lead at Penn

Beginning in her freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, Dandi Zhu figured that being successful could only be helped by being around other women who wanted, as she did, to be leaders.That’s what drew her to Ware College House’s Women in Leadership residential program.

Jeanne Leong

Helping Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Penn Students Stay True to Who They Are

Helping Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Penn Students Stay True to Who They Are

University of Pennsylvania junior Roderick Cook believes that it’s important for those in positions of privilege and power to redistribute resources to help marginalized communities in Philadelphia and beyond.

Jacquie Posey

Arabic Language Immersion Preps Penn Senior for Government Service Career

Arabic Language Immersion Preps Penn Senior for Government Service Career

Blake Harwood first developed a passion to learn languages in high school as a teenager in Highland Park, Ill. when she won a scholarship to study Arabic in Cairo for six weeks in a foreign exchange student program.

Jacquie Posey

Penn Experience Leads Two Seniors to Real World Results

Penn Experience Leads Two Seniors to Real World Results

A friendship formed while studying business at the University of Pennsylvania led two students from India to co-found a start up business. The pair, now seniors, say they’ve learned a lot about themselves in the process.   Pranshu Maheshwari, from Chennai, and Yash Kothari, from Mumbai, first met before the start of their freshman year at a reception in India for newly accepted Penn students.

Jacquie Posey