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Regular folks in the Roman Empire
Kim Bowes and the cover of her book The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014 with an illustration of a small wooden house in the country with a tree

Kimberly Bowes, archaeologist, classical studies professor, and director of the Integrated Studies Program, focuses not on the elite during the Roman Empire, but on the lived experience of the working poor and the economies that dominated their lives. Bowes has received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to expand her research.

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    • Regular folks in the Roman Empire

    Kimberly Bowes of the School of Arts & Sciences focuses on the lived experience of the Roman Empire’s working poor and the economies that dominated their lives 2,00 years ago.
    Urging caution but not panic on monkeypox
    microscopic view of monkeypox virus

    In the last few weeks, an outbreak of monkeypox, a relative of smallpox, has affected nearly 100 people across 12 countries.

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    • Urging caution but not panic on monkeypox

    While unfamiliar to many in the U.S., monkeypox and other poxviruses have been on the radar of researchers at the School of Dental Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine for decades.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Talking admissions with Whitney Soule
    Whitney Soule.

    Whitney Soule, vice provost and dean of admissions. (Image: Lisa Godfrey)

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    • Talking admissions with Whitney Soule

    As vice provost and dean of admissions, Soule is challenged daily with thinking strategically about undergraduate enrollment at Penn—from recruitment to application processes and all that goes into admitting a class, to how financial aid and retention fits into the mix.

    Lauren Hertzler

    A Wharton initiative championing global change
    Screen shot of virtual meeting with various people on camera and some off-camera.

    The Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, Penn, and its many partners issued a call for proposals for an initiative: Building Capacity to Combat COVID-19 in Africa: Ideas and Innovations from Young Entrepreneurs. (Image: Ideas for Action, The Wharton School)

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    • A Wharton initiative championing global change

    The Ideas for Action Wharton undergraduate student club is a joint initiative with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research to engage youth around the world in developing solutions to global challenges.

    Dee Patel

    Climate resilience, economic competitiveness, and equity at the megaregional level
    portraits of fritz steiner and bob yaro alongside the cover of their book with a map of the united states and the title megaregions and america's future

    In a Q&A about their new book “Megaregions and America’s Future,” Dean Frederick Steiner (left) and Emeritus Professor of Practice Robert Yaro of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design discuss how megaregions in the U.S. can address complex challenges.

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    • Climate resilience, economic competitiveness, and equity at the megaregional level

    In “Megaregions and America’s Future,” Emeritus Professor of Practice Robert Yaro and Dean Frederick Steiner discuss how megaregions in the U.S. can address complex challenges.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Anti-LGBTQ measures
    Marchers waving gay pride flags make their way long a boardwalk with the skyline of St. Petersburg, Florida, in the background

    Marchers make their way toward the St. Pete Pier in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Saturday, March 12, 2022 during a march to protest the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill passed by Florida's Republican-led legislature and now on its way to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk. (Image: Courtesy Martha Asencio-Rhine/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

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    • Anti-LGBTQ measures

    Penn Law’s Tobias Wolff discusses the Florida “Don’t Say Gay” bill and a Texas directive on transgender children.

    Kristen de Groot

    The West’s sanctions on Russia
    A line of people wearing winter coats and hats extends down a sidewalk in St. Petersburg, Russia, as they wait to use an ATM

    People stand in line to withdraw U.S. dollars and euros from an ATM in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Feb. 25, 2022. Ordinary Russians faced the prospect of higher prices and crimped foreign travel as Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine sent the ruble plummeting, leading uneasy people to line up at banks and ATMs. (Image: AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

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    • The West’s sanctions on Russia

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, professor of economics and director of the Penn Initiative for the Study of the Markets, discusses the severity of the sanctions, the effects so far, and the potential reverberations for the rest of the globe.

    Kristen de Groot