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Indigenous views of Christopher Columbus
A fallen statue of Columbus lays on the ground in the foreground, and two people hold up an End White Supremacy sign in the background.

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Indigenous views of Christopher Columbus

Members of Penn’s Indigenous community discuss their views of Christopher Columbus and how Indigenous people have suffered from Columbus-style colonialism.
Panelists ‘lay out the stakes’ of civil discourse
silfen forum This year’s Silfen Forum, moved to a live, online format due to COVID-19, featured Ashley Parker, Julián Castro, Donna Brazile, Peggy Noonan, and Jeb Bush, in conversation with the Paideia Program’s inaugural director Michael Delli Carpini. President Amy Gutmann kicked off the event, which engaged the theme “Civil Discourse in Uncivil Times.”

Panelists ‘lay out the stakes’ of civil discourse

At the 2020 Silfen Forum, hosted by President Amy Gutmann, students, faculty, staff, and alumni tuned in to hear from a group of distinguished experts—Ashley Parker, Julián Castro, Donna Brazile, Peggy Noonan, and Jeb Bush, with Michael Delli Carpini of the Paideia Program serving as the event’s moderator.

Lauren Hertzler

Quakers of all ages
At Franklin Field, a student from West Philadelphia runs with a baton during a track & field practice.

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Quakers of all ages

Every year since 2013, the Penn track and field teams have joined forces with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships in a program called Young Quakers Community Athletics (YQCA).

Penn Today Staff

A farm for the community
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A farm for the community

The Food and Wellness Collaborative, which emerged from the ‘Your Big Idea’ competition, has turned an expanse of turf into a productive growing space.

Katherine Unger Baillie

To be successful online, faculty went back to the classroom
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Among the many approaches professors are using to teach online is to create videos of lectures for students to access anytime and to devote class time together for discussion and group activities. Math professor Robert Ghrist created a video textbook to teach multivariable calculus.

To be successful online, faculty went back to the classroom

With students learning remotely, Penn provides support for professors as they’ve been challenged to retool courses and rethink their approaches to teaching.
Nursing student volunteers play critical role at campus COVID-19 testing site
A person in a surgical gown, rubber gloves, face mask, and glasses holding hands in front of the face of a person whose back is to the camera. That person is also wearing a mask and has earbuds in.

Students from the School of Nursing like fourth year Gabbie Domingo assisted in conducting COVID-19 tests at a temporary site in Houston Hall’s Hall of Flags. Between early August and Sept. 12, 2020, the health care team completed 13,097 tests.

Nursing student volunteers play critical role at campus COVID-19 testing site

For two weeks, 37 fourth-year nursing students checked people in, conducted screenings, and swabbed noses, contributing to the more than 13,000 tests completed at Houston Hall since early August.

Michele W. Berger

‘Motivated to vote’
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I Voted Today! stickers convey the excitement and enthusiasm of Penn students.

‘Motivated to vote’

Co-directors Eva Gonzalez and Harrison Feinman of Penn Leads the Vote push for 100% student voter registration in the Year of Civic Engagement.

Kristina García

‘India front and center’
Man walks up stairs. Posters in Hindi hang on the walls.

Thachil visits a municipal office in India to collect data on annual city budgets. (Image: Adam Auerbach)

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    • ‘India front and center’

    Tariq Thachil talks with Penn Today about his current work on migration and urbanization in south Asia, the balance between research and teaching, and his new role as the director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). 

    Kristina García

    Using PennOpen Pass for the early detection of COVID-19
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    Using PennOpen Pass for the early detection of COVID-19

    The daily symptom tracker is a critical step in ongoing efforts to safely resume academic, research, and clinical activities across campus.

    Erica K. Brockmeier

    Radio magic: A summer internship at WXPN’s ‘World Cafe’
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    Leanna Tilitei, a sophomore who plans to declare a major in communications, was a programming intern at Penn’s public radio station WXPN during the summer. 

    Radio magic: A summer internship at WXPN’s ‘World Cafe’

    As a summer intern for WXPN’s ‘World Cafe,’ sophomore Leanna Tilitei worked remotely as a member of the programming team helping to produce the ‘nation’s most listened-to-public radio music program.’