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Picturing artistic pursuits
students working with clay slabs at a table

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Picturing artistic pursuits

Hundreds of undergraduates take classes in the fine arts each semester, among them painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, printmaking and animation, photography and videography. The courses, through the School of Arts & Sciences and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an art form in a collaborative way.
‘The Conflict over the Conflict’
Kenneth S. Stern gives a talk.

Kenneth S. Stern, author of “The Conflict Over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate,” gave a talk at Penn about freedom of expression and addressing campus divides.

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‘The Conflict over the Conflict’

Kenneth S. Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, spoke at Penn about addressing campus divides over the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Understanding the Northeast earthquake
Photograph of a seismograph reading following an earthquake.

Last week people in the Northeast experienced a rare earthquake that registered a magnitude of 4.8. To learn more about the mechanics of earthquakes and this occurrence, Penn Today spoke with David Goldsby of the School of Arts & Sciences and Robert Carpick of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

(Image: iStock/allanswart)

  • Q&A

    • Understanding the Northeast earthquake

    Last week, people in the Northeast experienced a rare earthquake that registered a magnitude of 4.8. Penn Today spoke with David Goldsby of the School of Arts & Sciences and Robert Carpick of the School of Engineering and Applied Science about the event.
    ‘Moving along’ to the Dutch-German border
    Two people sit in front of the glass doors of a brick building.

    Simon Richter (left) chats with Dutch comedian Patrick Nederkoorn in a still from the documentary “A New Peace of Münster.”

    (Image: Courtesy of Maria Kolossa)

    ‘Moving along’ to the Dutch-German border

    A new documentary co-produced and co-starring Simon Richter of the School of Arts & Sciences invites viewers to imagine the day when the Dutch may have to move toward Germany as sea levels rise and how that might happen peacefully and innovatively.

    Kristen de Groot

    Who, What, Why: Luke Godsey’s Appalachian quilt
    Luke Godsey holds a multicolored quilt up at the PWC

    Luke Godsey and the in-progress quilt at the Penn Women’s Center

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Luke Godsey’s Appalachian quilt

    Luke Godsey, a second-year student in the College of Arts and Sciences, has created a quilt for the Penn Women’s Center as part of a new art series.

    Kristina García

    25 years of UMOJA at Penn
    Nine people stand underneath a screen that reads "The Legacy of UMOJA 25th anniversary celebration"

    UMOJA members stand with Berry and Redding at the December 2023 celebration.

    (Image: Tarah Paul)

    25 years of UMOJA at Penn

    UMOJA, Penn’s organization for Black student life on campus has provided outreach, collaboration, and unity since 1998.

    Kristina García

    Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface
    Close-up of NASA's LASSIE robot, logo in frame.

    Penn researchers are part of a collaborative multidisciplinary effort that’s preparing doglike robots to traverse extraterrestrial landscapes, like those that are analogous to the moon’s surface.

    (Image: Courtesy of Sean Grasso)

    Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface

    Researchers from Penn are part of a NASA-funded multidisciplinary collaborative effort that’s teaching robots to navigate the extraterrestrial craters, like the moon and Mars.
    The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest
    The Colombian rainforest.

    Aerial view of the torrential rivers of the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Putumayo.

    (Image: Daniel Mendieta Giraldo)

    The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest

    Through her research, Kristina Lyons, associate professor of anthropology, is relaying the tales of the land’s suffering, as well as its enduring practical and spiritual importance to its residents.

    Blake Cole

    Four Penn undergrads are 2024 Goldwater Scholars
    Four students pictured in a grid

    Penn’s 2024 Goldwater Scholars (clockwise from top left) are third-year students Hayle Kim, Kaitlin Mrksich, Eric Tao and Eric Myzelev. Kim, Myzelev and Tao are in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Mrksich in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. 

    (Images: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships)

    Four Penn undergrads are 2024 Goldwater Scholars

    Four Penn third-year students have received 2024 Goldwater Scholarships, awarded to undergraduates planning research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering.