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Honoring a life scientist’s life-saving science

Carl June accepted the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at a Los Angeles ceremony, making him the sixth recipient from Penn.

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Picturing artistic pursuits

Hundreds of undergraduates take classes in the fine arts each semester, among them painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, printmaking and animation, photography and videography. The courses, through the School of Arts & Sciences and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an art form in a collaborative way.

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4/16

Investigating Homelessness

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The Department of English and Kelly Writers House present a conversation between author Jennifer Egan and Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy and Practice, who studies homelessness and assisted housing policy. They will discuss how social science research and investigative journalism can combine to consider what storytelling can be done to capture the present situation of homelessness.

12:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

4/20

Earth Week 2024

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This is a campuswide week of events, lectures, and volunteer opportunities designed to educate and inspire action related to environmental justice, climate, and nature-based solutions. This year’s theme is Restore & Regenerate.

12:00 a.m.

Various locations

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“Barbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body”

A new Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of work by artist Barbara Earl Thomas features cut-paper portraits reminiscent of stained glass and an immersive installation constructed with intricately cut material.

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Barbara Earl Thomas in front of her artwork
Artist Barbara Earl Thomas gives a tour of her exhibition, “The Illuminated Body,” at the Arthur Ross Gallery. On view through May 21, it is funded by a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage grant. 
Barbara Earl Thomas
Thousands of cutouts create swirling patterns in the Tyvek material that envelopes “The Transformation Room,” a room-within-a-room in the Gallery.
Barbara Earl Thomas viewing artwork
Barbara Earl Thomas and Seth Parker Woods in “The Transformation Room.”
Provost John L. Jackson, Jr. (center) attended the exhibition opening.
Provost John L. Jackson, Jr. (center) attended the exhibition opening, along with nearly 300 people at the reception and discussion.
Barbara Earle Thomas and Seth Parker Woods.
The Arthur Ross Gallery exhibit is the first time Thomas’  work has been shown in Philadelphia.
Viewers of the exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery.
For “The Illuminated Body,” Thomas specifically responded to the Arthur Ross Gallery’s Venetian Gothic architecture.
Detail of the cut paper of Barbara Earle Thomas’ artwork.
The exhibit includes a series of nine large cut-paper portraits and three works of hand-blown glass.
Illuminated Body details on walls and ceiling
Light streams through thousands of cutouts on long white Tyvek drapes enveloping a room-within-a-room titled “The Transformation Room,” part of the Barbar Earl Thomas’ “The Illuminated Body” exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery.

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CNN

Why Corporate America is keeping quiet on abortion

In a Q&A, Cait Lamberton of the Wharton School discusses the changing winds of corporate activism and the dilemma business leaders find themselves in with abortion.

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Axios

Wawa marks a 60th anniversary milestone

Barbara Kahn of the Wharton School says that Wawa’s endurance has been fueled by authenticity, a fun name, and its offering of fresh quality foods.

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The New Yorker

How to die in good health

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that incessantly preparing for old age mistakes a long life for a worthwhile one.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Mayor Parker’s plan to ‘remove the presence of drug users’ from Kensington raises new questions

Shoshana Aronowitz of the School of Nursing and Ashish Thakrar of the Perelman School of Medicine comment on the lack of specificity in Philadelphia’s plan to remove drug users from Kensington and on the current state of drug treatment in the city.

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Big Think

Can we stop AI hallucinations? And do we even want to?

Chris Callison-Burch of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that auto-regressive generation can make it difficult for language learning models to perform fact-based or symbolic reasoning.

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The New York Times

Biden’s student loan repayment plan is being challenged. Here’s what to know

Kent Smetters of the Wharton School attributes $235 billion of the cost of the SAVE loan repayment plan to its increased generosity relative to existing plans.

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Associated Press

Far fewer young Americans now want to study in China. Both countries are trying to fix that

Amy Gadsden of Penn Global says that American interest in studying in China is declining due to foreign businesses closing their offices there and Beijing’s draconian governing style.

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Associated Press

In death, three decades after his trial verdict, O.J. Simpson still reflects America’s racial divides

Camille Charles of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Black Americans have grown less likely to believe in a famous defendant’s innocence as a show of race solidarity.

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WHYY (Philadelphia)

Bridging Blocks has Philadelphians focused on dispelling myths around immigration

Exequiel Hernandez of the Wharton School says that immigrants are net positive contributors to everything that makes a community prosperous.

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The Wall Street Journal

‘Slouch’ review: The panic over posture

In her new book, “Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America,” Beth Linker of the School of Arts & Sciences traces society’s posture obsession to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

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