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Sociology professor Emilio A. Parrado, director of the Population Studies Center, commented on findings that Indianapolis is the US city with the highest birth rate and the implications for its future. 🚼🚼🚼

On the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, History's William Sturkey and Mary Frances Berry, Marcia Chatelain of Africana Studies, and Deul Ross of Penn Carey Law share their thoughts on the act's significance and today's needs.

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Driving a climate model forward and backward in time, Mann Research Group scientists found strong path dependence in the evolution of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations. Michael E. Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Earth & Environmental Science, says these results indicate it’s not too late to act to keep present-day ice sheets from collapsing. Read more in Penn Today: https://bit.ly/4cCh7k2

Five years ago, for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, art historian Jonathan D. Katz curated an exhibition for Wrightwood 659 centered on Stonewall. Now, Katz has documented the exhibit and Stonewall in a new book that includes more than 350 artworks as well as eight essays by scholars and experts including Prof. Dagmawi Woubshet of English and alums Ava L.J. Kim, GR'26 and Jacolby Satterwhite, GFA10.

Penn Arts & Sciences responded to the recent unrest on campus surrounding October 7 and the war in Gaza by creating a dialog series, Living the Hard Promise. “My colleagues in the Dean’s Office noted with concern the struggles within our community to hear one another and to respond with empathy, respect, and an open mind,” says Steven J. Fluharty, Dean and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Pharmacology, and Neuroscience. Read more in Omnia.

Matty Hemming, who earned a Ph.D. in English last month, looks at literary texts, such as Quicksand, by Nella Larsen, as historical documentation of social differences. “I want to understand the specific discourses and practices and policies that these authors were engaging with, critiquing, exposing,” she says. She begins a teaching position at Rice University this fall.

Music Ph.D. candidate Katherine Scahill’s research engages with three communities of female Buddhist monks in Thailand, drawing on religious studies and music studies to investigate the sonic practices these monks employ in their chanting traditions.

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How does representation in sexually explicit materials affect the well-being of people who identify as cisgender male, Asian American, and non-heterosexual? It’s a question Steven Chen, C’24, is on a quest to answer.