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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.
Public opinion research in changing times
A graph indicating public opinion polling.

Image: Ikon Images via AP Images

Public opinion research in changing times

In a Q&A, William Marble of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies talks about how PORES has had to adjust to the series of rapidly changing events in the presidential race and to longer-standing shifts in public opinion research methodologies.
Venezuela’s disputed election and unrest
A crowd of people protesting the election in Venezuela.

Government supporters rally in defense of President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 30, 2024, two days after the disputed presidential election.

(Image: AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Venezuela’s disputed election and unrest

Ángel Alvarado, a senior fellow in the Department of Economics and former Venezuelan congressman, shares his thoughts on the power struggle and ongoing crisis. 

Kristen de Groot

Takeaways from the U.K. elections
Keir Starmer shakes hands with supporters holding signs that say Change and look like the UK flag.

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer with his supporters at the Tate Modern in London on July 5, 2024.

(Image: AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Takeaways from the U.K. elections

Political scientist Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences offers his take on the Labour Party’s landslide victory and what it means going forward.

Kristen de Groot

The Immigration Act of 1924
A group of Chinese and Japanese women and children waiting to be processed, held in a wire mesh enclosure. Benches line either sides of the room, with a stool in the middle.

A group of Chinese and Japanese women and children waiting to be processed, held in a wire mesh enclosure at the Angel Island Internment barracks in San Francisco Bay. The Angel Island Immigration Station processed one million immigrants from 1910 to 1940, mostly from China and Japan.

(Image: AP Photo/File)

The Immigration Act of 1924

A century after a federal law established a national quota system on immigration, legal historian Hardeep Dhillon explains the significance and legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924.

Kristina García