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The Green New Deal: What it says, what it doesn’t say, and how close we are to adopting it
A view looking up into a forest of trees, with light streaming through.

In February, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) introduced a non-binding resolution to Congress known as the Green New Deal. It’s unclear how far it will progress, but it is fueling a long-needed conversation about climate change, according to Mark Alan Hughes of Penn’s Kleinman Center.

The Green New Deal: What it says, what it doesn’t say, and how close we are to adopting it

Mark Alan Hughes, director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, discusses the basics of this energy-mobilization proposal.

Michele W. Berger

Night at the (Penn) Museum
Kids with statue and flashlights

The flashlight expedition included a trip through the Egypt gallery, with artifacts like this statue of Ramses II. 

Night at the (Penn) Museum

What it’s like to sleep over with mummies and more than 10,000 years’ worth of artifacts.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

Empathy and cooperation go hand in hand
Two figures have heated discussion as a third in the middle observes

Taking the perspective of another can help foster cooperation in a group, according to a new study by Penn evolutionary biologists.

Empathy and cooperation go hand in hand

Taking a game theory approach to study cooperation, School of Arts and Sciences evolutionary biologists find that empathy can help cooperative behavior ‘win out’ over selfishness.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The future of Annenberg, with John L. Jackson Jr. at the helm
john jackson speaking at a film screening

The future of Annenberg, with John L. Jackson Jr. at the helm

Under his leadership, the school is poised to further engage in the pressing cultural, political, and ideological conversations happening in today’s unprecedented media landscape.

Michele W. Berger

Five events to watch for in April
Dancers striking a pose

Dancers pose as part of Kun-Yang Lin/Dance’s upcoming performance at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. (Photo courtesy: The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)

Five events to watch for in April

Happening around campus this April: an appearance by “Sorry to Bother You” director Boots Riley, a talk from Inquirer critic Inga Saffron, and the 10th annual West Craft Fest.
‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself’
walt whitman on a horse and buggy

‘I celebrate myself, and sing myself’

Two centuries after his birth, Walt Whitman’s poetry still resonates with audiences today. The Penn Libraries is leading a region-wide, yearlong celebration of Whitman at 200.
Confronting inequities, sharing solutions
A group of three rows of people wearing nametags poses for a photo.

This year’s Global Water Alliance Conference convened a diverse cross-section of individuals from backgrounds ranging from engineering to social justice. Their common thread? A shared interest in erasing disparities in access to clean water. (Photo: Pheng Tang/Global Water Alliance)

Confronting inequities, sharing solutions

At the annual meeting of the Global Water Alliance, faculty, students, and practitioners shared solutions and challenges around the issues of water access, sanitation, and hygiene in the U.S. and around the world.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Weekly paid professional staff learn resilience through free, online opportunity
Woman in a black suit standing, gesturing with her hands, with an African American man in the background, in front of a red wall.

Karen Reivich (seen here in March 2019) is director of resilience training at Penn’s Positive Psychology Center. She teaches an online Coursera course, Resilience Skills in a Time of Uncertainty, that’s now free and available to the public. (Image: Eric Sucar)

Weekly paid professional staff learn resilience through free, online opportunity

Offered through the Online Learning Initiative and the College of Liberal and Professional Studies, the course teaches participants resilience, gratitude, authenticity, and more.

Michele W. Berger

Unearthing a botanical legacy, one seed at a time
seeds found at bartrams garden

Unearthing a botanical legacy, one seed at a time

Painstaking work by Penn Museum archaeobotanist Chantel White and students has verified what the Bartrams sold and exported to Europe in the 1800s, and shed light on the family’s daily dietary habits.

Michele W. Berger