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Overturning Roe disproportionately burdens marginalized groups
A person tearing up in a crowd of people. The person, who is holding a green bandana, wears a shirt that says "We Won't Back Down." Other people hold up signs in the crowd, including "Keep Abortion Legal."

Abortion-rights activists demonstrate in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Overturning Roe disproportionately burdens marginalized groups

For low-income people and people of color, lack of access to safe abortions in the U.S. will have a range of health and financial ramifications, compounding factors like poverty and systemic racism.

Michele W. Berger

Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’
Joan DeJean and the cover of her book Mutinous Women

In her latest book “Mutinous Women,” Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French Colony of Louisiana. DeJean’s research follows their paths and corrects the historical record, documenting that they were victims, unjustly accused and convicted.

(Image: Candace diCarlo)

Joan DeJean on ‘Mutinous Women’

In her latest book, Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French colony of Louisiana.
Penn Abroad: Rising senior Kiersten Thomas in Sweden 
Kiersten Thomas crouching in snow with dogs attached to dogsled on frozen tundra with mountains in the background

Rising senior Kiersten Thomas, a health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences studied abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics.

Penn Abroad: Rising senior Kiersten Thomas in Sweden 

Rising senior Kiersten Thomas, a health and societies major in the College of Arts and Sciences studied abroad at the Stockholm School of Economics.
The Great War and memory
Penn students walk around World War One-era trenches in a French field

Students tour the battlefield in the Butte de Vauquois in northern France. (Image: Courtesy of Arielle Schweber)

The Great War and memory

History professor Warren Breckman took his Penn Global Seminar students to the Western Front area of northern France and Belgium to look at World War I through the intersections of personal and public memory.

Kristen de Groot

Can China stop climate change?
Scott Moore sitting on a bench Scott Moore, director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives, pictured along Locust Walk.
  • Q&A

    • Can China stop climate change?

    In a political science course and new book, Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives Scott Moore unfurls the layers of China’s approach to sustainability and technology.
    Wale Adebanwi on democratic reform in Africa
    Illustrations of chat boxes, African American hands holding a handful of stones, and an African American person in profile.

    Image: Kingsley Nebechi

    Wale Adebanwi on democratic reform in Africa

    The Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies teaches an undergraduate course, Popular Culture and Youth in Africa. He discusses successes and challenges of democratic reform in post-Cold War Africa.

    From Omnia

    Debate as social empowerment
    Member of the Penn Debate Society look at notes during a round with the Bard Prison Initiative Debate Union

    Members of the Penn Debate Society discuss notes during their round against the Bard Prison Initiative Debate Union at Eastern New York Correctional Facility in April. (Image: Courtesy of Karen Pearson/BPI)

    Debate as social empowerment

    From debating a team in an upstate New York prison to helping the formerly incarcerated in Philadelphia, the Penn Debate Society sees debate as a tool to help others help themselves

    Kristen de Groot

    Who, What, Why: Tamia Harvey-Martin presents her film debut
    Tamia Harvey-Martin smiles in front of the LGBT Center with one hand in her pocket and one hand on a camera hung on a strap around her neck

    Tamia Harvey-Martin premieres “A Foolproof Guide to Relationships,” a short film about asexuality, at the LGBT Center on June 28. 

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Tamia Harvey-Martin presents her film debut

    Tamia Harvey-Martin premieres “A Foolproof Guide to Relationships,” a short film about asexuality, at the LGBT Center on June 28. 

    Kristina García

    What the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means
    Administrator working in a reproductive health clinic with a sign on their desk that reads BANS OFF OUR BODIES.

    Image: AP Photo/Martha Irvine

    What the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means

    Marci Hamilton, a Penn Professor of Practice and founder and CEO of the nonprofit think tank CHILD USA, offers thoughts as this news unfolds.

    Michele W. Berger

    Princess Rahman on ancient history, studying abroad, and her senior-year pivot
    A woman wearing a visor and backpack holds a notebook in front of a stone wall with mountain views in the background

    Studying abroad was a highlight of Princess Rahman’s college career. 

    Princess Rahman on ancient history, studying abroad, and her senior-year pivot

    Princess Rahman, a May graduate in the School of Arts & Sciences, pivoted from a pre-med track to become an ancient history major. After a semester abroad in Rome, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Egyptology.

    Kristina García