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History will remember 2020. Here’s four ways it will shape Pa. politics moving forward

History will remember 2020. Here’s four ways it will shape Pa. politics moving forward

Mary Frances Berry of the School of Arts & Sciences said she wasn’t surprised that the protests following the police killing of George Floyd have slowed. “The election came, and the campaign for the presidency. And what it did was to disrupt and diminish the protests,” she said. “The establishment, the political establishment wanted to get everybody involved in the election, hoping they would forget about the protests and all the disruption.”

Rahul Mukherjee’s life in the screen
Cartoon of a human person in a suit with a television for a head with waves implying wavelengths in the background.

Rahul Mukherjee’s life in the screen

In two classes, the Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies looks at the big picture of our digital life.

From Omnia

Two Penn faculty named 2020 AAAS Fellows
Close-up headshots of two people. The person on the left wears a suit and tie, the one on the right wears a plaid button-down shirt.

Qi Long (left), a professor of biostatistics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and E. Michael Ostap, a professor of physiology, both of the Perelman School of Medicine, have been named 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows. (Images: Courtesy of Penn Medicine)

Two Penn faculty named 2020 AAAS Fellows

Qi Long and E. Michael Ostap of the Perelman School of Medicine are among a cohort of 489 distinguished scientists recognized with the honor from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Melissa Moody , Michele W. Berger

Uniting against an invisible foe
microscopic image of covid-19

A tiny virus has transformed life as we know it. But in nearly every corner of Penn’s campus, researchers are making remarkable progress to combat it.

(Image, also on homepage: National Institutes of Health)

Uniting against an invisible foe

All across the University, researchers have launched new areas of study, reaching across disciplinary boundaries to make stunning progress in combating COVID-19.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Donita Brady is ready for the next steps in cancer biology research
Donita Brady in her office.

Presidential Professor of cancer biology Donita Brady. (Image: Penn Medicine News)

Donita Brady is ready for the next steps in cancer biology research

The Presidential Professor of cancer biology leads a team that is working to understand how cancer grows uncontrolled in cells and discovering novel ways to stop it. 

Melissa Moody