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Top five election takeaways
A side-scrolling election feed is displayed on the side of a building in Times Square in New York City. There are people below in the foreground.

A scrolling news feed with election results on election night in Times Square, New York.

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Top five election takeaways

Stephanie Perry, exit polling manager for NBC News and executive director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies, shares insights into what drove voters in Tuesday’s election.
Takeaways: The new mini moon
Visualization of 2024PT5's orbit around the sun temporarily joining Earth's.

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth welcomed 2024 PT5, a “mini-moon” temporarily captured by the planet’s orbit that’s set to depart on Monday, Nov. 25.

(Image: Courtesy of NASA/JPL)

Takeaways: The new mini moon

Last month Earth welcomed a visitor known as 2024 PT5. To learn more about this celestial guest, Penn Today caught up with two astronomers in the School of Arts & Sciences, Gary Bernstein and Bhuvnesh Jain.
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)

  • Q&A

    • 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

    Five takeaways from the Biden-Trump debate
    The back of a man wearing a white cowboy hat near an American flag can be seen in front of a television showing the first 2024 presidential debate between Biden and Trump.

    Roger Strassburg watches the presidential debate between President Joe Biden and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump at a debate watch party Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

    (Image: AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

    Five takeaways from the Biden-Trump debate

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, discusses the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Group along with some thoughts on last week’s presidential debate.

    Kristen de Groot

    New guideline on acute dental pain management
    Alonso Carrasco-Labra

    Alonso Carrasco-Labra of Penn Dental Medicine is director of the Cochrane Oral Health Collaborating Center.

    (Image: Penn Dental Medicine)

    New guideline on acute dental pain management

    In collaboration with the American Dental Association and University of Pittsburgh, Penn’s School of Dental Medicine has issued a new guideline for managing acute dental pain in adolescents, adults, and older adults.
    Three things to know about the Iowa caucuses
    A blurry person walks past a sign on a window reading "Iowa Caucuses, first in the nation" with an illustration of an elephant and a donkey inside the "o" in Iowa.

    A sign for the Iowa Caucuses on a downtown skywalk, in Des Moines, Iowa, on Feb. 4, 2020. Iowa Republicans have scheduled the party’s presidential nominating caucuses for Jan. 15, 2024.

    (Image: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

    Three things to know about the Iowa caucuses

    John Lapinski, director of the Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies and director of elections at NBC News, shares his thoughts on what to watch Monday.

    Kristen de Groot

    Five takeaways from the international PISA exam results
    Student holding pencil to paper pamphlet.

    Image: iStock / Chinnapong

    Five takeaways from the international PISA exam results

    Every three years, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development issues a standardized test to 15-year-old students around the world. Here, an education professor boils down the results.
    Three takeaways on respiratory illness in dogs
    Veterinarian with dog.

    Canine illness has been spreading in some parts of the country, and it's unclear whether this is from a novel organism.

    (Image: iStock/SeventyFour)

    Three takeaways on respiratory illness in dogs

    Deborah Silverstein of the School of Veterinary Medicine advises dog owners to stay calm but take certain precautions.
    Election night takeaways
    Signs for and against Ohio's Issue 1 are in a lawn covered in fall leaves in front of a church

    Issue 1 signs sit outside Knox Presbyterian Church on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. Issue 1 specifically declares an individual’s right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including abortion.

    (Image: AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

    Election night takeaways

    Political scientist Marc Meredith and PORES director Stephanie Perry, who both worked on NBC’s Decision Desk on Election Night with more than a dozen Penn undergrads, share their thoughts on what Tuesday’s results could mean for 2024.

    Kristen de Groot