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One School’s push for hosting and spearheading international fieldwork

In a challenging global landscape, Penn Arts & Sciences faculty and students are finding ways to preserve and continue international scholarship.

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Global Research Seminar in Jamaica

This spring, Penn Carey Law students traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, as part of the Global Research Seminar in Reproductive Rights and Justice in Jamaica, led by Professor Dorothy Roberts.

Members of the Perry World House Geneva cohort standing in front of UN flags.

Learning from the practitioners of statecraft

A cohort of 18 Perry World House undergraduate student fellows traveled to Geneva to learn from diplomats, technical experts, and activists working to advance global security, economic growth, and well-being.

Students at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve in Gaborone, Botswana.

Spring Intercultural Ventures explore geopolitics and economic change on the ground

The global immersion program enables Penn students from the Lauder Institute to gain a firsthand understanding of how policy, history, culture, and socioeconomic forces shape real-world conditions in various countries.

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Strengthening the peace and security agenda

Penn Carey Law’s Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s work on women in conflict, the “Women, Peace and Security Addendum“ has been formally adopted at the 92nd session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.

A group photo in front of a borehole drilling machine at Alna Farms in Gambia.

Solar solutions for farmers in The Gambia

For students in Engineers Without Borders at Penn, collaborating with Gambian farmers to design an irrigation system is a way to both address food insecurity in the smallest country in mainland Africa and apply their knowledge from the classroom in the real world.

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Perry World House appears at annual Munich Security Conference

Perry World House (PWH) faculty director and University of Pennsylvania Richard Perry Professor Michael C. Horowitz co-hosted a side event at the Munich Security Council titled “Droning on: Rethinking Precision and the Future of Warfare,” which addressed critical issues for future investments in conventional and nuclear deterrence.

Fourth-year student Prithvi Parthasarathy standing with arms crossed in the Neural and Behavioral Sciences Building

Prithvi Parthasarathy: Using AI to improve health care delivery in rural India

Prithvi Parthasarathy, a fourth-year neuroscience major, designed an AI triage tool to improve hospital efficiency and patient care.

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Perspectives and insight on Venezuela

Four Penn Arts & Sciences experts gathered for a Knowledge by the Slice event to discuss what lies ahead for Venezuela, the U.S., and Latin America.

The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations announces Transpacific and Asian Dialogue Fellows

Twenty-two leading scholars and experts from throughout the Asia-Pacific region comprise this new fellowship, which will contribute to policy deliberations over the novel and complex challenges posed by China’s rise on the world stage.

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