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Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being
A person with arms crossed at the chest standing outside between two rock walls, in front of a glass building.

Lyle Ungar, a professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and one of the principal investigators of the World Well-Being Project, which has spent more than half a decade working on ways to grasp the emotional satisfaction and happiness of specific places.

Language in tweets offers insight into community-level well-being

In a Q&A, researcher Lyle Ungar discusses why counties that frequently use words like ‘love’ aren’t necessarily happier, plus how techniques from this work led to a real-time COVID-19 wellness map.

Michele W. Berger

Supporting agriculture and a safe food supply
cows in a field at new bolton center

In pre-Covid-19 times, the Marshak Dairy at Penn Vet’s New Bolton Center was a place for teaching as well as research. Now an essential crew of workers remain to care for the cows, as other veterinarians in the School continue to care for livestock around the region. (Credit: Penn Vet)

Supporting agriculture and a safe food supply

Essential workers in the School of Veterinary Medicine are caring for livestock, keeping track of disease, ensuring product consistency, and communicating with farmers to ensure that farms can continue providing a reliable food supply for the community.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Understanding the Americas through material texts
Professor standing with hands on her hips in the library with a chandelier in the background

Glenda Goodman, assistant professor of music at Penn, collaborated with a friend at Princeton to organize the American Contact project on material texts. 

Understanding the Americas through material texts

Penn and Princeton partner to create a now-virtual symposium to explore 38 objects, including books, journals, maps, musical scores, visual art, wampum, textiles, stone tablets, and various kinds of handwork. 

Louisa Shepard

Penn labs get creative to stay productive, connected
thomas mallouk lab with researcher

Penn labs get creative to stay productive, connected

In the face of a pandemic that has shuttered most physical laboratories across campus, researchers have shifted gears, maintaining work and social ties through grant- and manuscript-writing, virtual journal clubs, online coffee breaks, and more.

Michele W. Berger

An online celebration to mark a very special day
closeup of student at graduation

An online celebration to mark a very special day

Penn will host an online University-wide graduation event at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 18. In-person ceremonies for Penn’s 264th Commencement will still take place on campus at a later date.

Lauren Hertzler

Naskapi connections: Restorative research in the Penn Museum collection
Professor stands on one side of a table filled with Native American objects while talking to seven other people across from and beside her i

Penn anthropologist Margaret Bruchac, left, speaking with visitors from the Naskapi Nation in Canada about the Penn Museum’s collection of more than 400 objects from their community acquired in the 1930s by Frank Speck, a founder of Penn’s Anthropology Department.  

Naskapi connections: Restorative research in the Penn Museum collection

A blog post about a child’s hunting jacket made of caribou hide caught the attention of a high school students in the Naskapi Nation in Quebec. A group visited the Penn Museum to view artifacts made by their ancestors.

Louisa Shepard

Walter Licht’s legacy of civic engagement
Person sits on corner of conference table with wall of books behind them, smiling at the camera. History professor Walter Licht in his office earlier this semester. He is stepping down from his duties at Civic House in June.

Walter Licht’s legacy of civic engagement

For more than 40 years at Penn, Walter Licht has crafted a career of equal parts renowned historian, teacher, and community activist, including creating the Penn Civic Scholars Program. Licht recently announced he is stepping down from his positions at Civic House.

Kristen de Groot

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