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Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface
Close-up of NASA's LASSIE robot, logo in frame.

Penn researchers are part of a collaborative multidisciplinary effort that’s preparing doglike robots to traverse extraterrestrial landscapes, like those that are analogous to the moon’s surface.

(Image: Courtesy of Sean Grasso)

Teaching doglike robots to walk on the moon’s dusty, icy surface

Researchers from Penn are part of a NASA-funded multidisciplinary collaborative effort that’s teaching robots to navigate the extraterrestrial craters, like the moon and Mars.
Kathleen Morrison on biodiversity and climate change
Kathleen Morrison.

Kathleen Morrison, faculty director of the Environmental Innovations Initiative.

(Image: Courtesy of the Environmental Innovations Initiative)

Kathleen Morrison on biodiversity and climate change

The faculty director of the Environmental Innovations Initiative, her research spans anthropology, archaeology, and paleoecology, involving the study of historic climates and environments, with a focus on South Asia.

From the Environmental Innovations Initiative

The soils beneath the solar fields
Hannah Win takes soil samples at a solar site.

To take soil samples at the solar site, Hannah Winn wields a bulb planter and mixes samples from across locations, looking at variables such that reflect the biological, chemical, and physical properties of the soil.

(Image: Courtesy of AES)

The soils beneath the solar fields

How do solar farms impact soil health? It’s a question that master’s student Hannah Winn is exploring at the central Pennsylvania site where solar energy production is helping Penn progress toward carbon neutrality.

Katherine Unger Baillie

COP28 takeaways
Four speakers sit on a stage in front of a screen reading Perry World House and the Penn shield, in front of a packed audience at Perry World House.

The panelists at Perry World House shared their thoughts on the strides made at COP28, and the work that remains in addressing the climate crisis.

(Image: Courtesy of Perry World House)

COP28 takeaways

Perry World House Fellows and Advisors Lolita Jackson, Stephen Hammer, and Wolfgang Blau offered their insights from the conference in a discussion last week, moderated by Perry World House Interim Director Michael Weisberg.

Kristen de Groot