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Anita Allen, Daniel Rader, and Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein

Three from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Vice Provost for Faculty Anita Allen of the Law School and the School of Arts and Sciences, Daniel Rader of the Perelman School of Medicine, and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of Perry World House join a group recognized for their world-class leadership and expertise.

Tackling climate change on all levels

At the Perry World House Global Shifts Colloquium, experts from around the world discussed what governments, and individuals, can do to avoid the ultimate catastrophe.

A group of people walking in front of a stone building in Haifa, Israel.

Experiencing the literature, architecture, and film of Haifa, up close

During a Penn Global Seminar in March, professor Nili Gold led 18 undergraduates around the coastal Israeli city, exposing them to its people and places and to her childhood home.

Group of students and professor gathered at monument with mountain in back.

Seeing, hearing, and encountering post-apartheid South Africa

A Penn Global Seminar course taught by Carol Muller took the 16 undergraduates to South Africa to explore that nation's history and post-apartheid present day through music and culture. The students demonstrated the impact of the journey through final projects including a painting, a written paper, a poem, a film, a photo essay, a musical score—even a set of political cartoons.

Women from a small self-help group movement in India sit at a community meeting with members of the SP2 research project.

The economic impact of India’s self-help group movement

Doctoral candidate Allison Russell of the School of Social Policy & Practice works with professor Femida Handy to examine how the self-help group movement leads to job creation in India.

From devastation, stories of hope and resilience

On a summer field trip, students assisted in the filming of virtual reality videos of artists in Puerto Rico reacting to Hurricane Maria.

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein named Perry World House Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence

In addition to his residency at PWH, Penn’s global policy research institute, Al Hussein will also co-teach a class at the Penn Law School during the spring semester.

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The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’

During the next two years, Penn IREF will award as much as $2 million in matching research grants to Penn faculty to stimulate and support research activity in India.

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Penn Biden Center engages students in The Democracy Project

Students took part in the first of four national events aimed at deepening the understanding of young Americans' attitudes about democracy.

Joe Biden to offer contrast to Trump in London foreign policy speech

Joseph Biden of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement challenged the current administration’s approach to foreign policy when he spoke on campus last month. “The worst thing in the world we can have is this new naked nationalism America first. I believe making America first, in the way we're doing it, will make America last,” he said.

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