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Tracing public opinion on global issues
Tom Etienne with students sitting outside.

Doctoral student Tom Etienne with students from his cohort.

(Image: Courtesy of Annenberg School for Communication)

Tracing public opinion on global issues

Tom Etienne, a joint doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Political Science, uses his skills in data collection to analyze political opinions.

From Annenberg School for Communication

Bringing Ukraine to Penn
Dariya Orlova, Olena Lysenko, Serhii Shadrin, Hannah Kaluher, and Maksym Potlov

(Left to right) Olena Lysenko, a documentary filmmaker, and Dariya Orlova, a lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; Serhii Shadrin and Hannah Kaluher, graduate students participating in a one-year program for displaced scholars in the Russian and East European Studies Department; and Maksym Potlov, a fourth-year from Odesa, a Penn World Scholar.

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Bringing Ukraine to Penn

On the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, displaced and visiting scholars and students from Ukraine share their experience at Penn.

Kristen de Groot

Black Puerto Rican history
Daniel Morales-Armstrong sits on a park bench in front of Penn's College Hall

Africana Studies and History Ph.D. candidate Daniel Morales-Armstrong’s research looks at Black Puerto Rican history.

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Black Puerto Rican history

Ph.D. candidate Daniel Morales-Armstrong’s research considers whose voices and narratives prevail and whose are plagued by silences.

Kristen de Groot

Penn named top producer of Fulbright U.S. students
Penn campus building

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Penn named top producer of Fulbright U.S. students

The U.S. Department of State has named the University as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top Producing Institution for the 2022-23 academic year.

Dee Patel

The storm of 1928 and the tempest’s legacies
A statue depicts a woman holding a baby, a school aged child and a man running from a hurricane.

A statue depicts a family fleeing from a hurricane in Belle Glade, Florida. A hurricane in 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its dike, wiping out the town and killing thousands. (Image: Courtesy of Brett Robert)

The storm of 1928 and the tempest’s legacies

Brett Robert’s research looks at a hurricane that killed thousands across the Caribbean and into Florida. His work explores how racial relationships shape the way people live and die within their environments.

Kristen de Groot

Advancing research and education to push forward oral health excellence
Esra Sahingur in the halls of the dental school

Sinem Esra Sahingur has both research and administrative duties as associate dean of graduate studies and student research at Penn Dental Medicine.

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Advancing research and education to push forward oral health excellence

Since joining the School of Dental Medicine faculty in 2019, Sinem Esra Sahingur has launched two new master’s programs, expanded student research, and continued to pursue her own research program on immune regulation.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Three ways to respond following the earthquake in Turkey and Syria
A building standing amid piles of rubble set against a blue sky. The building is partially collapsed.

A building in Antakya, in southeastern Turkey, was heavily damaged during the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.

(Image: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Three ways to respond following the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Guidance from the Center for High Impact Philanthropy, Penn Global, and Penn Medicine’s disaster preparedness team on how to help from afar and what resources are available on campus.

Michele W. Berger, Kristina García , Juliana Rosati

Who, What, Why: Francisco Díaz on anthropology and the modern Maya
Francisco Diaz at the Penn Museum in front of a carved stone pillar

(Image: Eric Sucar)

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Francisco Díaz on anthropology and the modern Maya

    Francisco Díaz studies Maya contributions to archeology at a time when Indigenous people were viewed as little more than laborers. His research shows that Indigenous people were archaeologists in their own right, working season after season with specialized skills to excavate the past.

    Kristina García