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Two Penn faculty awarded Pew Fellowships
Sculptor Michelle Lopez sitting and talking in front of her sculpture and musician Tyshawn Sorey standing in front of a grafitti on a wall

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage awarded two Penn faculty each a Pew Fellowship in the Arts: artist and sculptor Michelle Lopez (left) in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design; and musician and composer Tyshawn Sorey (right) in the School of Arts & Sciences.

(Images (left) by University of Pennsylvania Communications, and (right) Ogata courtesy of the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.)

Two Penn faculty awarded Pew Fellowships

Two Penn faculty -- installation artist and sculptor Michelle Lopez, and composer and musician Tyshawn Sorey -- each have been awarded one of 12 arts fellowships by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia.

Louisa Shepard

Across Pennsylvania, Penn students practice ‘political empathy’ to connect across divides
HOPE painted colorfully on the exterior of the Hazelton Integration Project.

(On homepage) The Political Empathy Lab visited the Hazleton Integration Project, a nonprofit and community center serving a city that has seen a large increase in Dominican immigrants over the past two decades.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn’s Political Empathy Lab)

Across Pennsylvania, Penn students practice ‘political empathy’ to connect across divides

Through the SNF Paideia Program, seven undergraduates and political scientist Lia Howard traveled all over the commonwealth this summer, listening to residents talk about their lives and the issues that matter to them.
Peter Struck: A champion for the liberal arts
Peter Struck.

Peter Struck, Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities, begins a new role as Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Peter Struck: A champion for the liberal arts

The Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities discusses his new role as the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, and how the liberal arts are foundational to education.

Blake Cole

How is the world working to save biodiversity?
Three women sit at tables in front of an audience. A Zoom screen with three additional speakers is behind them.

Kathleeen Morrison, Fernanda Jiménez, and Julie Ellis present to the Penn community at CLALS. The program was also available to online participants; behind them, Carolina Angel Botero, Emilio Latorre, and Keith Russell present via Zoom.

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How is the world working to save biodiversity?

A Sept. 18 panel hosted by the Environmental Innovations Initiative and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies discussed local and global initiatives.

Kristina Linnea García

Public opinion research in changing times
A graph indicating public opinion polling.

Image: Ikon Images via AP Images

  • Q&A

    • Public opinion research in changing times

    In a Q&A, William Marble of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies talks about how PORES has had to adjust to the series of rapidly changing events in the presidential race and to longer-standing shifts in public opinion research methodologies.
    How everyday stress impacts cigarette smoking
    Gabriella Jean stands on Locust Walk while wearing a pants suit.

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    How everyday stress impacts cigarette smoking

    Supported by PURM, second-year Gabriella Jean worked in the AHA! Lab over the summer on a research project examining the association between everyday life stressors and cigarette smoking.
    From college community to career path
    A person wearing a backpack outside a university building.

    Image: iStock/MangoStar_Studio

    From college community to career path

    Joyce Kim, an advanced doctoral student in sociology and education, wants to know what motivates undergraduates—especially those who are the first in their families to attend college—to choose the career trajectories that they do.

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    Steven J. Fluharty to step down as dean of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences
    Steve Fluharty seated at a table with hands folded.

    Steven J. Fluharty, Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience and dean of the School of Arts & Sciences.

    (Image: Lisa J. Godfrey)

    Steven J. Fluharty to step down as dean of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences

    The Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience has served as dean since 2013, concluding his term as the longest-serving dean in the history of the School of Arts & Sciences.

    Novel coupled nanopore platform offers greater precision for detecting molecules
    Artist depiction of DNA moving through a nanopore system.

    Marija Drndić of the School of Arts & Sciences and Dimitri Monos of the Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia led a team of researchers who developed a new nanostructure platform that allows for more precise detection and control of biomolecules, such as DNA and proteins. This exciting new platform signals a new era of synthetic biology, paving the way for enhanced DNA sequencing and protein conformation detection.

    (Image: Courtesy of artist) 

    Novel coupled nanopore platform offers greater precision for detecting molecules

    An interdisciplinary team of researchers from Penn have created the first ever reusable coupled nanopore platform for detecting and guiding molecules, findings could pave the way for much improved DNA sequencing and molecule identification.