In Ghana, a team led by associate professor of practice Heather Huntington is working with many partners to support “deforestation-free cocoa,” which could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase carbon sequestration, and help cocoa farmers up their productivity and resilience.
(Image: Courtesy of Heather Huntington)
The quest to find actionable data for policymakers in developing countries
A collaboration between the Penn Development Research Initiative and the DevLab@Penn is on the ground in developing nations to generate better evidence that can influence real-world decisions.
Ashley Vanderbeck (third from left) with Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources veterinary students.
(Image: Courtesy of Ashley Vanderbeck for Penn Vet News)
Vet student’s semester in Malawi is part of new educational partnership
Ashley Vanderbeck spent a semester at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Malawi thanks to a novel program between Penn Vet and LUANAR to foster educational exchange and research opportunities.
Professor of history Fred Dickinson (back, right) with his students in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
(Image: Courtesy of Fred Dickinson)
Teaching and learning abroad in Vietnam
In a Q&A, Fred Dickinson of the Department of History discusses his semester as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Vietnam and building out Southeast Asian studies at Penn.
The 7th Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLAC) conference, organized by an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students, showcased public and community engaged scholarship across the region and its diaspora.
(Image: Janeth Zaldivar)
Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean showcases University scholarship
The seventh Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean conference centered on the theme of “Public and Community Engaged Scholarship in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Its Diaspora.”
Kathleeen Morrison, Fernanda Jiménez, and Julie Ellis present to the Penn community at CLALS. The program was also available to online participants; behind them, Carolina Angel Botero, Emilio Latorre, and Keith Russell present via Zoom.
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How is the world working to save biodiversity?
A Sept. 18 panel hosted by the Environmental Innovations Initiative and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies discussed local and global initiatives.
Rising fourth-year Krishna Chandrasekhara spent three weeks in Mexico this summer as part of a project exploring the impact of water collection on public and community health.
(On homepage) At Uji, a city south of Kyoto that’s famous for tea, Penn students learn from a matcha master.
(Image: John Kehayias)
Where scientific nationalism meets tradition
In May, John Kehayias led a Penn Global Seminar to Japan, exploring ideas of wartime-era scientific nationalism while cultivating cross-cultural exchange.
Aerial view of the torrential rivers of the Andean-Amazonian foothills of Putumayo.
(Image: Daniel Mendieta Giraldo)
The stories of a war-scarred Colombian rainforest
Through her research, Kristina Lyons, associate professor of anthropology, is relaying the tales of the land’s suffering, as well as its enduring practical and spiritual importance to its residents.
U.S. Border Patrol agents with migrants seeking asylum, mainly from Colombia, China, and Ecuador, in a makeshift, mountainous campsite after crossing the border between Mexico and the United States on Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba, California.
(Image: AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Immigration policy and the 2024 presidential election
An April 2 symposium will bring together policy analysts, immigration scholars, and representatives of nonprofit advocacy organizations to discuss immigration policies and their impact.
