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Who, What, Why: Recent graduate of the College Justin Roberts
Five people wearing red sweaters with an applique "P" holding clarinets. In front of them, three graduating bandmates sport gowns and regalia

Justin Roberts (middle, front row) and fellow clarinetists in the Penn Band.

(Image: Courtesy of Justin Roberts)

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Recent graduate of the College Justin Roberts

    May College graduate Justin Roberts, who will attend Penn Carey Law School in the fall, discusses his involvement with campus cultural centers and the meaning behind his graduation regalia.

    Kristina García

    Who, What, Why: Patrick Carland-Echavarria and queer Americans in post-war Japan
    Man with red curly hair and glasses looks into the camera, which is giving a half-moon glow on the lower right side of the image.

    Patrick Carland-Echavarria, an East Asian Languages and Civilizations Ph.D. candidate, says his research is all about readjusting the lenses of history. 

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    • Who, What, Why: Patrick Carland-Echavarria and queer Americans in post-war Japan

    Ph.D. candidate Patrick Carland-Echavarria’s research looks at postwar Japanese queer cultures, translation, art, and literature and at how American gay men found refuge there during the Cold War and beyond.

    Kristen de Groot

    Global learning in Cairo
    A group of students take pictures on a rooftop deck. The city of Cairo, with its skyscrapers and minarets, are visible in the background

    Founded by the Fatimid Caliphate in 969, the city of Cairo has “layer upon layer of history,” says Fayyaz Vellani. “It has all this rich cultural texture and heritage that just is observable every day.”

    (Image: Fayyaz Vellani)

    Global learning in Cairo

    Cairo as Palimpsest is a Penn Global course that introduces students to the layers of Egyptian history.

    Kristina García

    Kimberly St. Julian Varnon on the short-lived insurrection in Russia
    Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District.

    (Image: AP Photo)

    Kimberly St. Julian Varnon on the short-lived insurrection in Russia

    The history Ph.D. candidate discusses the shocking weekend revolt and march on Moscow by Wagner Group militia members.

    Kristen de Groot

    Urbanization and the influence of poor migrants on politics
    Traffic in New Delhi with pedestrians, buses, and tuktuks.

    Image: iStock/Arkadij Schell

    Urbanization and the influence of poor migrants on politics

    A new book from political science professor Tariq Thachil explores how the most vulnerable individuals in India are making a political impact.

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    ‘Ritual and Remembrance’
    two artists laughing with each other standing in gallery in front of wooden balusters on wall

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    ‘Ritual and Remembrance’

    Work by four artists in the current Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition, “Songs for Ritual and Remembrance,” uplift histories that have been repressed and underrepresented, including those of enslaved people and oppressed laborers.
    Who, What, Why: History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite looks at Haitian debt
    History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite leans up against a light brown brick building with her arms crossed, smiling at the camera.

    Arielle Alterwaite’s dissertation uses archives in seven different countries to explore Haiti's sovereign debt in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution.

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    • Who, What, Why: History Ph.D. candidate Arielle Alterwaite looks at Haitian debt

    Her work on Haiti’s sovereign debt in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution holds lessons for what is currently happening there and more broadly for conversations around reparations.

    Kristen de Groot

    AI could transform social science research
    Team of Computer Engineers Work on Machine Learning Neural Network Technology Development

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    AI could transform social science research

    Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Philip Tetlock and researchers from the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, and Yale, discuss AI and its application to their work.
    Exploring the relationship between cooking and scientific discovery
    Laser tomography of champagne glasses.

    Laser tomography of champagne glasses: (left and right) counter-rotating convection cells self-organize at the air-champagne interface, and (center) stabilized eddies in a surface-treated glass.

    (Image: Fabien Beaumont, Gérard Liger-Belair, and Guillaume Polidori)

    Exploring the relationship between cooking and scientific discovery

    Penn physicist Arnold Mathijssen and colleagues have authored a review article discussing the history of food innovations and the current scientific breakthroughs that are changing the way we eat.
    A historian’s take on Juneteenth
    VanJessica Gladney speaking at a podium.

    Doctoral candidate VanJessica Gladney speaking at Penn Spectrum Weekend in 2019.

    (Image: Eddy Marenco)

    A historian’s take on Juneteenth

    In a Q&A, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate VanJessica Gladney talks about what the day means and what broader conversation she hopes it will foster.

    Michele W. Berger