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A new ARCH building mural celebrates beauty and difference
Will Atkins, Vicky Aquino, and students affix flower stickers to the new AAPI mural

Vicky Aquino, associate director and the artist behind the mural, at its launch. This project was supported by the entire PAACH team and key members of University Life, including Associate Vice Provost Will Atkins (left).

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A new ARCH building mural celebrates beauty and difference

A new mural in the ARCH building lobby represents and celebrates the diversity of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders  

Kristina Linnea García

Art of the South Asian diaspora
Four women stand in front of a stage

From left to right, Aisha Khan, Arooj Aftab, Shahzia Sikander, and Fariha Khan at “The Artists’ Talk.”

(Image: Ana Glassman)

Art of the South Asian diaspora

An event spearheaded by the Asian American Studies Program combined scholarship and artistic practice to showcase art of the South Asian diaspora as a contemporary American tradition.

Kristina Linnea García

The care they need, where they are
shelter health workers at the front desk

Undergraduates Sophie Gu, Julia Badolato, and Julie Elfishawy help Kiston Farquharson check out of the ICNA Relief SHAMS Clinic following his appointment. The Penn students are members of Shelter Health Outreach Program, a student club which, through a Projects for Progress award, is working with Penn Medicine physicians to provide primary care at SHAMS Clinic and mobile clinic sites around Philadelphia.

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The care they need, where they are

A team of undergrads and physicians are partnering with community clinics and other organizations as part of a Projects for Progress-supported program to offer medical care to people experiencing homelessness and other vulnerable populations.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’
Sonal Khullar inspects the flyleaf from 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Sonal Khullar inspects the flyleaf of an illustrated copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ a favorite book from her childhood.

(Image: Dan Horan.)

Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’

The history of South Asian art professor discusses books, art, and love through her edited volume “Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia.”

Kristina Linnea García

Celebrating Penn’s Named Scholarship Program in New York City
Magill on stage with three students smiling

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Celebrating Penn’s Named Scholarship Program in New York City

President Liz Magill moderated a panel featuring three students who shared their unique paths to and extraordinary experiences at Penn, thanks to the University’s generous donor community.

Lauren Hertzler

Good Friday Agreement, 25 years later
Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair and then taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday agreement 25 years ago.

Then-U.K. prime minister Tony Blair (left) and then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern sign the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998. 

 (Image: Press Association via AP Images)

Good Friday Agreement, 25 years later

Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences looks back at the deal that brought peace to Northern Ireland.

Kristen de Groot

Four Penn faculty named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows
a grid of four faces

Four faculty have been awarded the prestigious 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship: (clockwise from upper left) Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School; and Heather K. Love, professor of English; Jennifer M. Morton, professor of philosophy; and Projit Bihari Mukharji, professor of history and sociology of science in the School of Arts & Sciences.

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Four Penn faculty named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows

PIK Professor Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and Heather K. Love, Jennifer M. Morton, and Projit Bihari Mukharji of the School of Arts & Sciences have been awarded the prestigious fellowship.

Louisa Shepard

COVID-19 and anti-Asian hate
Tiffany Tieu smiles at the camera as she sits on a low white table next to yellow leather chairs.

Research by recent graduates Tiffany Tieu (pictured) and Hope Cho looked at anti-Asian hate experienced by Penn students in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Image: Eric Sucar)

COVID-19 and anti-Asian hate

During the peak of the pandemic, psychology major Tiffany Tieu, in a collaborative study, explored anti-Asian racism through the lens of her peers.

Kristen de Groot

Scholarship beyond the written word
Juan Castrillon speaking in a classroom

Homepage image: This semester, Castrillón is co-teaching Critical Qualitative Research and Intentional Torts with Regina Austin of Penn Carey Law and Alissa M. Jordan, director of Penn’s Center for Experimental Ethnography.

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Scholarship beyond the written word

Ethnomusicologist Juan Castrillón, the inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, is on a quest to get other academics to see multimedia work as he does: on par with scholarly text.

Michele W. Berger , Julie Sloane