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The uncertain future of DACA
Dreamers from Mexico living in Houston rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, holding signs reading "DACA is temporary; our home is here"

Susana Lujano, left, a dreamer from Mexico who lives in Houston, joins other activists to rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 15, 2022.  (Image: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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    • The uncertain future of DACA

    Sarah Paoletti of Penn Carey Law’s Transnational Legal Clinic sheds some light on a federal appeals court ruling earlier this month.

    Kristen de Groot

    Finding community in the Jewish High Holy Days
    A cut apple and pomegranate surround a honey jar with a wooden honey stick on top. An uncut apple and pomegranate are in the background.

    Finding community in the Jewish High Holy Days

    Three cultural and academic leaders at Penn consider how a return to experiencing Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in person offered physical and spiritual healing.

    Kristina García, Michele W. Berger

    Engaging teens in the art of design
    high school student working at design table

    Engaging teens in the art of design

    Through the PennPraxis program Design to Thrive, high schoolers are paired with Penn graduate students to learn the design process, from planning to welding and all parts in between.

    Michael Grant

    What it’s like to be stationed at a particle accelerator
    Inside the particle accelerator.

    A photo from the installation of the detector. The large silver and orange striped tubes are the solenoid magnet, which is the largest toroidal magnet ever constructed. It provides a magnetic field of up to 3.5 Tesla. Now that Run 3 has started, the magnet is on even when we researchers are working underground, so they are required to use non-magnetic tools. (Image: Courtesy of Gwen Gardner and Lauren Osojnak)

    What it’s like to be stationed at a particle accelerator

    Gwen Gardner and Lauren Osojnak, Ph.D. candidates in physics, describe their work as part of the Penn ATLAS team at the Large Hadron Collider.

    Blake Cole

    3D printing drones work like bees to build and repair structures while flying
    Two drone-like robots. A smaller one is on the left. A larger one is on the right. The larger one is making a 3D printout of something that looks like white foam.

    3D printing drones work like bees to build and repair structures while flying

    Researchers including Weitzman’s Robert Stuart-Smith have made a swarm of bee-inspired drones that can collectively 3D print material while in flight, allowing unbounded manufacturing for building and repairing structures.

    From Penn Engineering Today, From the Weitzman School of Design

    At the Annenberg Center, 50 years of experimentation
    philadanco dance on a blue stage

    A scene from West Philadelphia-based Philadanco’s “The Xmas Philes.” (Image: Mark Garvin)

     

    At the Annenberg Center, 50 years of experimentation

    The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new season and a planned building expansion. Penn Today looks back at the Center’s history—and where it’s going under Penn Live Arts.
    Exploring what it means to be curious
    Book cover of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection by Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett along side image of the two scholars

    Exploring what it means to be curious

    In a new book “Curious Minds: The Power of Connection,” Penn’s Dani S. Bassett and twin sibling Perry Zurn weave together history, linguistics, network science, neuroscience, and philosophy to unpack the concept of curiosity.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    The story the bowls tell
    penn museum incantation bowl being examined

    Gross and Elitzur-Leiman are studying some intact, pristine bowls and others, like the one above, that are in pieces. “The sherds tell a story, too,” says Blanchard.

    The story the bowls tell

    In an ambitious new project, historian Simcha Gross and Harvard’s Rivka Elitzur-Leiman are studying hundreds of ancient incantation bowls housed at the Penn Museum. They hope to better understand the objects and eventually, build a database of all these bowls worldwide.

    Michele W. Berger

    Singing, speech production, and the brain
    A person standing up adjusting a headset over a person sitting in a soundproof room. Barely visible in front of the sitting person is a computer screen and keyboard. A fire alarm sits above a window behind both people.

    Eiffert situates a headset on participant Maggie Compton. The metal contraption holds an ultrasound probe in place under Compton’s chin, to capture images of her tongue placement in the mouth.

    Singing, speech production, and the brain

    This summer, rising second-years Audrey Keener and Nicholas Eiffert worked in the lab of Penn linguist Jianjing Kuang studying vowel articulation in song, running an in-person experiment and built a corpus of classical recordings by famous singers.

    Michele W. Berger