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Election night takeaways
Signs for and against Ohio's Issue 1 are in a lawn covered in fall leaves in front of a church

Issue 1 signs sit outside Knox Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. Issue 1 specifically declares an individual’s right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including abortion.

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Election night takeaways

Political scientist Marc Meredith and PORES director Stephanie Perry, who both worked on NBC’s Decision Desk on Election Night with more than a dozen Penn undergrads, share their thoughts on what Tuesday’s results could mean for 2024.

Kristen de Groot

A striking soccer story, starring Stas Korzeniowski
Stas Korzeniowski stands inside a goal at Penn Park with the Philly skyline in the background.

Image: Eric Sucar

A striking soccer story, starring Stas Korzeniowski

The third-year forward discusses the mind of a striker, America’s growing soccer culture, his first-year to second-year jump, competing in semi-pro ball, playing injured, and what he enjoys about the beautiful game.
Carbon capture and common misconceptions: A Q&A with Joe Romm
Aerial landscape view of a large coal fired power plant with storage tanks for Biofuel burning instead of coal

Joe Romm, a senior research fellow in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media, has recently published two papers on carbon dioxide removal and bioenergy carbon capture and will be keynoting American University’s Third Annual Conference on Carbon Dioxide Removal Law & Policy: Carbon Removal Deployment: Law and Policy from Planning to Project.

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  • Q&A

    • Carbon capture and common misconceptions: A Q&A with Joe Romm

    In a conversation with Penn Today, Joe Romm casts a sobering light on “solutions” to curb climate change.
    Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history
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    Penn’s ‘long tradition’ as a center for the study of African American history

    New hires like Marcia Chatelain and Vaughn Booker in Africana Studies and William Sturkey in the History Department are bolstering Penn’s position as one of the best places for the field of African American history.

    Kristen de Groot

    Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha
    clay jar in museum case surrounded by other clay works

    The clay jar by artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s long-term exhibition, Native American Voices: The People. Here and Now.

    (Image: J. DiSanto, Penn Museum)

  • Art Matters

    • Art Matters: Hand-coiled clay jar by Pueblo artist Les Namingha

    A hand-coiled clay jar by pueblo artist Les Namingha is on view in the Penn Museum’s Native American Voices gallery. The abstract surface design references water and its use in the U.S. Southwest.

    Louisa Shepard

    A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election
    A centimeter-scale quadruped leverages curved-crease origami

    Penn Leads the Vote volunteers pose with Penn President Liz Magill, Cory Bowman of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and Dawn Deitch of the Office of Government and Community Affairs.

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    A healthy turnout for an off-year, mayoral election

    Penn Leads the Vote was on hand at the Houston Hall polling location, one of several polling places on campus where voters made their voices heard for the 2023 general election.
    Scientists observe composite superstructure growth from nanocrystals in real time
    Artist's impression of spherical binary nanocrystal superlattices featuring semiconductor (emissive) and magnetic/plasmonic (non-emissive) nanocrystals.

    A collaborative team of researchers led by PIK Professor Christopher B. Murray has observed for the first time composite superstructure growth from nanocrystals in real time. The discovery could enable engineers to more reliably manufacture next-generation materials by combining different nanocrystals. Shown here is an artist's impression of spherical binary nanocrystal superlattices featuring semiconductor (emissive) and magnetic/plasmonic (non-emissive) nanocrystals.

    (Image: Courtesy of Emanuele Marino)

    Scientists observe composite superstructure growth from nanocrystals in real time

    The findings could enable engineers to more reliably manufacture next-generation materials by combining different nanocrystals.
    The philosophy of pregnancy
    Maja Sidzińska.

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  • Q&A

    • The philosophy of pregnancy

    Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Maja Sidzińska is working to fill a gap in philosophy of science scholarship about what individuality means.
    Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala
    Top row, left to right: Camilla Z. Charles, Ali Shapiro Cudby, and Judith Browne Dianis. Bottom row, left to right: Richard David Feintuch, Stanley H. Greene, and Brett Andrew Perlmutter.

    Top row: Camille Z. Charles, Ali Shapiro Cudby, and Judith Browne Dianis. Middle: Richard David Feintuch, Stanley H. Greene, and Brett Andrew Perlmutter. Bottom: Ann Nolan Reese, Katherine Sachs, and Victor Anthony Scotti Jr. 

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    Nine honored at Alumni Award of Merit Gala

    At the 2023 Alumni Award of Merit Gala, eight distinguished alumni will receive Awards of Merit, the Creative Spirit Award, and the inaugural Penn Alumni Social Impact Award, and Camille Z. Charles will receive the Faculty Award of Merit.
    Chinese Calligraphy Club makes an old art new again
    Hands holding calligraphy brush as they paint.

    The Penn Chinese Calligraphy Club features drop-in sessions from 6-7 p.m. on Fridays at the ARCH Fireside Lounge.

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    Chinese Calligraphy Club makes an old art new again

    The Penn Chinese Calligraphy Club, formed during the pandemic, endures as a meeting ground for amateur calligraphers who value the practice as meditation and art.