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Vet student’s semester in Malawi is part of new educational partnership
Ashley Vanderbeck with vet students in Malawi.

Ashley Vanderbeck (third from left) with Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources veterinary students.

(Image: Courtesy of Ashley Vanderbeck for Penn Vet News)

Vet student’s semester in Malawi is part of new educational partnership

Ashley Vanderbeck spent a semester at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Malawi thanks to a novel program between Penn Vet and LUANAR to foster educational exchange and research opportunities.

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Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam
Group of students and professor pose for a photo in front of a restaurant.

Professor of history Fred Dickinson (back, right) with his students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

(Image: Courtesy of Fred Dickinson)

Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam

In a Q&A, Fred Dickinson of the Department of History discusses his semester as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Vietnam and building out Southeast Asian studies at Penn.
Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean showcases University scholarship
The interior main room of Perry World House, where conference attendees listen to a presentation

The 7th Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLAC) conference, organized by an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students, showcased public and community engaged scholarship across the region and its diaspora.

(Image: Janeth Zaldivar)

Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean showcases University scholarship

The seventh Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean conference centered on the theme of “Public and Community Engaged Scholarship in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Its Diaspora.”

Kristina Linnea García

Where scientific nationalism meets tradition
A group of Penn students looking at Japanese artifacts being presented in a museum.

(On homepage) At Uji, a city south of Kyoto that’s famous for tea, Penn students learn from a matcha master.

(Image: John Kehayias)

Where scientific nationalism meets tradition

In May, John Kehayias led a Penn Global Seminar to Japan, exploring ideas of wartime-era scientific nationalism while cultivating cross-cultural exchange.
The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest
The Colombian rainforest.

Aerial view of the torrential rivers of the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Putumayo.

(Image: Daniel Mendieta Giraldo)

The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest

Through her research, Kristina Lyons, associate professor of anthropology, is relaying the tales of the land’s suffering, as well as its enduring practical and spiritual importance to its residents.

Blake Cole

First-year Gobhanu Korisepati receives a 2024 Legacy Award
Prince William presenting an award to Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati,

Britain’s Prince William presents an award to Gobhanu Sasankar Korisepati, a first-year student at the University of Pennsylvania from Oman, during the Diana Legacy Award, at the Science Museum in London, on March 14, 2024.

(Image: Arthur Edwards/Pool Photo via AP)

First-year Gobhanu Korisepati receives a 2024 Legacy Award

Korisepati, a student in the Hunstman Program at Penn, accepted the 2024 Diana Legacy Award from the Prince of Wales at a ceremony held March 14.
Two-and-a-half decades of research in Malawi
Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health Collaborators on the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health visited the University of Pennsylvania in October for a project meeting. Pictured are Lauren Schmitz (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Namrata Ray (Penn), Hans-Peter Kohler (Penn), Kondwani Katundu (Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Malawi), Kazione Kulisewa (Kamuzu University), Iliana V. Kohler (Penn), and Victor Mwapasa (Kamuzu University).

(Image: Eric Sucar)

Two-and-a-half decades of research in Malawi

As the country’s life expectancy has risen, the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health has shifted its current and future research to aging.