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Balancing renewable energy development and land protection
Jonathan Thompson, Andrew M. Hoffman, and Grace Wu on stage.

University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Andrew M. Hoffman, center, moderated a discussion with Jonathan Thompson and Grace Wu on tradeoffs in land use for renewable energy.

(Image: Ashley Hinton/Penn Vet)

Balancing renewable energy development and land protection

In an Energy Week event, Grace Wu and Jonathan Thompson provided perspectives on tradeoffs in land use from their work in California and Massachusetts.
Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia
R. Ramesh adjusts measuring tape at archaeological site.

R. Ramesh, assisting superintending archaeologist at the Archaeological Survey of India, adjusted a measuring tape at an archaeological site in India before he and Penn's Kathleen Morrison took samples for paleoenvironmental analysis from a Neolithic (3000-1200 BCE) deposit. 

(Image: Courtesy of Kathleen Morrison)

Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia

An international group of scholars, including archaeologists from the School of Arts & Sciences, synthesized archaeological evidence in South Asia from 12,000 and 6,000 years ago.

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Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.
Three people sit in chairs on a stage in front of a Perry World House logo. The person in the middle is talking with a hand-held microphone.

From left, Perry World House panelists Erin Sikorsky, Hussein Banai and Alexander Vershbow at a forum on foreign policy priorities for the incoming administration.

(Image: Gabrielle Szczepanek)

Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.

Experts offered predictions and insights for leaders in the incoming administration at a Perry World House forum.
Climate crisis meets nursing know-how
Roxana Chicas speaking at a Penn Nursing lecture.

Roxana Chicas speaking at Penn Nursing about her research focused on heat stress among migrant workers.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Nursing News)

Climate crisis meets nursing know-how

How nurses at Penn are innovating public health care for a changing world.

Christina Hernandez-Sherwood

Guernica is always with us
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Guernica is always with us

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the U.S. election results will likely make stabilizing global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius impossible.

White House national climate advisor talks Inflation Reduction Act results and reasons for hope
Ali Zaidi (right) and Justin Worland in discussion at Perry World House.

White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi (right) and senior correspondent at Time magazine Justin Worland in discussion at Perry World House.

(Image: Gabby Szczepanek/Perry World House)

White House national climate advisor talks Inflation Reduction Act results and reasons for hope

In a fireside chat at Penn, Ali Zaidi talked about the Biden Administration’s climate policy as a throughline to securing global competitiveness and domestic prosperity.
An illuminating celebration to a brighter, greener future
The exterior of the Vagelos building lit up with dramatic lighting.

The new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology boasts adaptable laboratory spaces to support the dynamic needs of pioneering research.

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An illuminating celebration to a brighter, greener future

Members of the Penn community celebrated an energy research milestone: the unveiling of the new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology.