President Jameson asks the Penn community to continue building a zero-tolerance culture for sexual harassment and violence.
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April 9, 2026
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Ahead of Take Back the Night, a global event condemning sexual assault, President J. Larry Jameson asks the Penn community to support one another in building a network of awareness, accountability, and allyship. “I aspire for Penn to become a national model for eliminating sexual harassment and violence—not merely in policy, but in culture,” he writes. “That aspiration begins with each of us.”
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On a recent capstone trip to Geneva, Switzerland, Perry World House student fellows met with diplomats, advocates, and experts from the United Nations to discuss international systems and foreign affairs. “What struck me most was how interconnected the issues are: security, development, trade, technology, and humanitarian work are all deeply linked,” says fourth-year Griffin Pitt.
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A highly contagious and lethal hemorrhagic disease, RHDV-2 threatens both wild and domestic rabbits and hares. In preparation for potential outbreaks, Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program has embarked on a genetics study of Eastern cottontails focused on how the virus spreads. “This research is intended to help wildlife management agencies develop a plan to be able to respond very quickly,” says postdoc Sarah Tomke.
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Penn Electric Racing recently unveiled its newest car, REV 11, which is scheduled to compete at the Formula SAE Electric competition in Michigan in June.
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 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
“We’re learning how to prevent and intercept cancers very, very early, when they’re minuscule,” says Robert Vonderheide, director of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center. “We’re thinking of how to find cancers when they’re a single cell—before they really have completed the cancer invasion program—and erase them and reset the clock.”
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APRIL 14
An activist, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Penn alumna who taught at the University from 2007-18, Salamishah Tillet will deliver a lecture in anticipation of her new book, “Nina Simone and the World She Made.” Following the talk will be a conversation with Provost John L. Jackson Jr. about Simone’s life and enduring legacy, as well as Tillet’s journey as a critic, scholar, and curator. Free and open to the Penn community. Register to attend.
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