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Penn undergrads and Decision 2024
John Lapinski and PORES students at a computer at the Decision Desk.

Image: Courtesy of OMNIA

Penn undergrads and Decision 2024

From helping with exit polling to vote count data collection, students in the PORES program bring their skills to the NBC Decision Desk on election nights.

Alex Schein

Who, What, Why: Ara Patvakanian
Ara Patvakanian stands behind some trees with his arms crossed.

Ara Patvakanian says double majoring in mathematical economics and political science has given him “a deep understanding of the conditions that make economies run, why certain ones collapse while others thrive.”

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Ara Patvakanian

    The fourth-year mathematical economics and political science double-major describes how our understanding of economic and political phenomena can have far-reaching consequences and highlights the importance of embracing different intellectual perspectives.

    Kristen de Groot

    Building a culture of voting
    Be a Voter banner hanging on Locust Walk.

    Penn Leads the Vote's "Be a Voter" banner hangs on Locust Walk.

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    Building a culture of voting

    Ahead of the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday, Penn Leads the Vote applies a ‘reverse doorknocking’ strategy of campus partnerships to get out the vote.
    A trio of events welcome world leaders to Penn
    A composite of three images featuring, left to right, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio; former South African President Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe; and former Peruvian President Francisco Sagasti.

    World leaders who came to Penn in recent weeks include (left to right) Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio; former South African President Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe; and former Peruvian President and Penn alum Francisco Sagasti.

    (Images: Courtesy of Eddy Marenco and Sarah Miller Photography)


     

    A trio of events welcome world leaders to Penn

    In recent weeks, the Center for Africana Studies hosted the president of Sierra Leone and a former president of South Africa, while Perry World House had a conversation with a former leader of Peru.

    Kristen de Groot

    ‘Moving along’ to the Dutch-German border
    Two people sit in front of the glass doors of a brick building.

    Simon Richter (left) chats with Dutch comedian Patrick Nederkoorn in a still from the documentary “A New Peace of Münster.”

    (Image: Courtesy of Maria Kolossa)

    ‘Moving along’ to the Dutch-German border

    A new documentary co-produced and co-starring Simon Richter of the School of Arts & Sciences invites viewers to imagine the day when the Dutch may have to move toward Germany as sea levels rise and how that might happen peacefully and innovatively.

    Kristen de Groot

    Inside the GOP
    Three people sit at a table in front of a small video camera on a tripod as the person on the right gestures with her hands.

    Former Trump staffers Alyssa Farrah Griffin (center) and Sarah Matthews (right) described their time in the White House and their vision for a new GOP in a discussion moderated by historian Brian Rosenwald (left).

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    Inside the GOP

    Alyssa Farrah Griffin and Sarah Matthews spoke about their experiences working for the ex-president and their views of a new GOP in a Red and Blue Exchange discussion moderated by Brian Rosenwald.

    Penn Today Staff

    Lauder students embark on odyssey through Georgia
    Group of people huddled together in front of a mural.

    Attendees of the Lauder Institute’s LIV trip to Georgia pose in front of the Russian Georgian Friendship Monument, erected by the Soviet Union in 1983 in northern Georgia. 

    (Image: The Lauder Institute)

    Lauder students embark on odyssey through Georgia

    As part of the Lauder Institute’s Lauder Intercultural Ventures program, graduate students traveled to Georgia, to the Russian border, and beyond, learning about wine, language, historical reckonings, and more. 
    Immigration policy and the 2024 presidential election
    A group of migrants along the Mexico-California border show their identification to U.S. Border Patrol agents, with brown mountains in the background and the sun about to rise, giving a spot of light in an overcast sky.

    U.S. Border Patrol agents with migrants seeking asylum, mainly from Colombia, China, and Ecuador, in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States on Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba, California. 

    (Image: AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

    Immigration policy and the 2024 presidential election

    An April 2 symposium will bring together policy analysts, immigration scholars, and representatives of nonprofit advocacy organizations to discuss immigration policies and their impact.

    Kristen de Groot