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Students meet virtually on BlueJeans with Pritchett and Gutmann

Down to the wire with Penn Leads the Vote

The student organization’s leaders reflect on a whirlwind of a semester and provide helpful tips for voters on Election Day.

Florida sees signals of a climate-driven housing crisis

Research led by Benjamin Keys and doctoral student Philip Mulder of the Wharton School found that Florida’s coastal real estate market has been on the decline for nearly a decade.

Why anti-racism education belongs in business school

The co-presidents of Wharton’s African-American MBA Association discuss leading the Black at Wharton community’s response to the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and the impacts the demonstrations have had on them and their communities.

Grad students studying inside Grad Center

In a time of uncertainty, resources for grad students hold steady

Penn staffers discuss resources available to graduate and postdoctoral students during this challenging time.

Elon Musk to show off working brain-hacking device

Ari Benjamin, a doctoral student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the biggest stumbling block for brain-to-machine interface technology is the complexity of the human brain. "Once they have the recordings, Neuralink will need to decode them and will someday hit the barrier that is our lack of basic understanding of how the brain works, no matter how many neurons they record from,” he said. "Decoding goals and movement plans is hard when you don't understand the neural code in which those things are communicated."

By wearing a Milwaukee Bucks mask, I hope people will stop asking me where I’m ‘really’ from

Tong Wang, a student in the Perelman School of Medicine, writes about the surge in anti-Asian racism that has accompanied the pandemic. “I’m proud to wear my mask; it protects people and can help prevent the spread of the coronavirus,” he writes. “But I make an intentional choice about which mask I choose to minimize discrimination.”

Q&A

Penn’s Student Campus Compact, explained

In a Q&A, Gary Purpura of the Office of the Provost discusses the Student Campus Compact and behavioral expectations of students on campus in the fall semester.

Cartoon of a parent and child reading between two similarly-sized buildings.

The Penn Family Center turns 10

When Stephanie Pierson showed up to a support group for Penn students who have children, she didn’t expect that everyone would be crying within the first five minutes, herself included.

Four portraits of people, from left to right: Abigail Timmel, Mona Merling, George Wang, and Thomas Brazelton.

Graduate mentors provide undergrads with ‘any path to math’

The Directed Reading Program pairs undergraduates with graduate student mentors for advanced learning.

Facing mounting pressure, ICE rescinds visa rule

Amid mounting pressure from colleges and universities, including Penn, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revoked a controversial policy affecting international students with F-1 visas.

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