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Who, What, Why: Recent graduate of the College Justin Roberts
Five people wearing red sweaters with an applique "P" holding clarinets. In front of them, three graduating bandmates sport gowns and regalia

Justin Roberts (middle, front row) and fellow clarinetists in the Penn Band.

(Image: Courtesy of Justin Roberts)

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Recent graduate of the College Justin Roberts

    May College graduate Justin Roberts, who will attend Penn Carey Law School in the fall, discusses his involvement with campus cultural centers and the meaning behind his graduation regalia.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Seeking solutions to a shortage of educators
    tamir harper sitting on a desk laughing with students

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    Seeking solutions to a shortage of educators

    Penn’s Graduate School of Education contributes to the conversation about the scarcity of Black men as K-12 teachers.

    Louisa Shepard

    Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history
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    Annenberg Classroom, part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has released a documentary “Juneteenth: Exploring Freedom’s Stories” that surveys the history of the holiday.

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    Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history

    A new documentary produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center explores the history of the holiday and illustrates how and why freedom and citizenship were intertwined. The film features Berry and Roosevelt, among others.

    Kristen de Groot

    Who, What, Why: Kelly Garcia-Ramos, advocate for students with speech impediments
    Kelly Garcia-Ramos outside under a tree.

    Kelly Garcia-Ramos, a rising fourth-year neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences, has founded a support group, SpeechFluency@Penn, for students who stutter.

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    • Who, What, Why: Kelly Garcia-Ramos, advocate for students with speech impediments

    Kelly Garcia-Ramos made the choice to no longer try to hide their stutter and last semester founded a support group, SpeechFluency@Penn, for students who stutter. 

    Louisa Shepard

    War and welfare in colonial Algeria
    A snowy field of marked gravestones, with yew hedges and a large obelisk in the background

    The ossuary of Douaumont is a memorial to the soldiers of the Battle of Verdun of 1916, located on the border of the communes of Douaumont and Fleury-devant-Douaumont, a few kilometers from Verdun. It houses the remains of 130,000 unknown soldiers, French and Germans. In front of the ossuary, the national necropolis of Douaumont gathers 16,142 graves of French soldiers, mainly Catholic, including a square of 592 steles of Muslim soldiers.

    (Image: Sipa via AP Images)

    War and welfare in colonial Algeria

    A new paper from political scientist Melissa M. Lee finds that veteran benefits were distributed unequally between citizens and colonized subjects.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Truth-teller: Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements
    Keisha-Khan Perry in her office, surrounded by books

    Keisha-Khan Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements in the Americas, is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Africana Studies.

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    Truth-teller: Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements

    Keisha-Khan Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements in the Americas, is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Africana Studies.

    Kristina Linnea García