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Moore v. Harper: Voting rights, election law, and the future of American democracy
Woman wearing face mask walks along sidewalk lined with campaign signs

Campaign signs from Maryland’s primary election, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Julio Cortez) 

Moore v. Harper: Voting rights, election law, and the future of American democracy

Experts from law, political science, and history share their thoughts on the potential dangers posed by a case the U.S. Supreme Court will hear next term.

Kristen de Groot

Martial arts and Asian American identity
Angela Shen smiles in front of the red steel sculpture on Locust Walk

Angela Shen, a rising junior in the Huntsman program, is researching Asian American identity and martial arts. 

Martial arts and Asian American identity

Rising junior Angela Shen researches the ritual and practice of judo, taekwondo, kung fu, and karate.

Kristina Linnea García

Dorothy Roberts on the future of abortion advocacy
A crowd of people gathered, one holds a sign that reads ABORTION IS ESSENTIAL.

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    • Dorothy Roberts on the future of abortion advocacy

    Dorothy Roberts speaks with Penn Today on the implications of the Dobbs decision, which struck down Roe v. Wade, leaving many states with no legal right to abortion.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Mentorship strategies to boost diversity in paleontology
    Scientists Erynn Johnson and Aja Carter use a 3D printer to make shell shapes

    Erynn Johnson and Aja Carter both earned their doctoral degrees in paleontology from Penn, employing pioneering techniques, such as 3D printing to replicate the forms of ancient creatures. In a new publication, they share advice for attracting and retaining students and trainees from underrepresented groups to paleontology. 

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    • Mentorship strategies to boost diversity in paleontology

    Drawing on research as well as their experiences as women of color in paleontology, Aja Carter and Erynn Johnson, who earned doctoral degrees from Penn, coauthored a paper offering advice for making the field more inclusive.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Inspired by nature, artificial microtubules can work against a current to transport tiny cargoes
    graphic of microvascular networks showing how free-swimming microrobots disperse but a microcatheter propels robots against a flow to a target

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    hile free-swimming microrobots have been explored as a way to precisely deliver therapeutics within a blood vessel, they can disperse in the strong flows, failing to reach their target at high enough concentrations. In contrast, microrobots propelled along an artificial microtubule, developed by physicist Arnold Mathijssen and colleagues, can be transported precisely, even working against the current. (Image: Courtesy of Arnold Mathijssen/Nature Machine Intelligence)

    Inspired by nature, artificial microtubules can work against a current to transport tiny cargoes

    Technology developed by Arnold Mathijssen of the School of Arts & Sciences and colleagues could one day clear blockages in blood vessels or precisely target chemotherapy drugs to a tumor.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Educating community-oriented biologists
    A student smiling in a lab wearing a lab coat.

    Reginald Kwarteng is an undergraduate student researcher in the Wagner Lab. (Image: Wil Prall)

    Educating community-oriented biologists

    Mecky Pohlschröder of the School of Arts & Sciences reflects on an SNF Paideia course that connects research conducted in the STEM field to the broader community, allowing students to observe the influences of their work outside of the lab.

    Exploring Mongolia with an insider’s view, no luggage necessary
    Penn Global seminar students hold up cups outside the Winter Palace

    Professor Christopher P. Atwood (left), the group’s guide Javzandulam Sodnom (right), and Penn Global seminar students at the ceremonial gate near the entrance to the Bogd Khan’s Winter Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They are toasting with small cups of “airag,” or fermented mare’s milk, a traditional drink which Penn graduate Yang Yuqing (yellow shirt, center), who is currently studying in Mongolia, brought for the class. (Image: Courtesy of Penn Global)

    Exploring Mongolia with an insider’s view, no luggage necessary

    Students in Christopher P. Atwood’s Penn Global seminar on Mongolian civilization explored the capital and vast grasslands of Mongolia, meeting welcoming locals along the way.

    Kristen de Groot

    Partnering with Philadelphia teachers to inspire climate action
    A group of 13 people stand in a classroom smiling.

    In June, Bethany Wiggin of the School of Arts & Sciences joined with 10 Philadelphia high school teachers to incorporate climate into their curricula. (Image: Courtesy of Mia D’Avanza and Bethany Wiggin)

    Partnering with Philadelphia teachers to inspire climate action

    Bethany Wiggin, founder of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, is working with public high school teachers across Philadelphia to incorporate climate education into the classroom.

    Luis Melecio-Zambrano

    Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future
    Several people around a table, one holds a satellite map.

    Grappling with a watershed’s uncertain environmental future

    Artists supported by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities created tools for navigating unpredictable ecological challenges, then brought them to life in a series of public workshops at the Independence Seaport Museum.

    Katherine Unger Baillie