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Tuesday, April 21, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian
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The Penn International Affairs Association’s Intercollegiate Debate Team took home the award for Best Large Delegation at the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference on Sunday. Over 3,000 students from more than 40 countries competed at the conference this weekend. Twenty delegates represented Penn.


Penn’s Division of Public Safety was one of many groups speaking at a City Council hearing last week on the topic of surveillance cameras in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia City Council’s Public Safety Committee convened a hearing last Monday about how the city’s closed-circuit television surveillance camera system could be improved.

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SIGGRAPH, Penn’s chapter of the Association for Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, has recently shifted its focus to help engineering students in the Digital Media Design program apply for jobs in computer graphics and animation.


	SIGGRAPH helps students create short videos to use in job applications such as one by Engineering senior Karl Li showing liquid falling on a rabbit.

SIGGRAPH, Penn’s chapter of the Association for Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, has recently shifted its focus to help engineering students in the Digital Media Design program apply for jobs in computer graphics and animation.


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Penn’s Division of Public Safety was one of many groups speaking at a City Council hearing last week on the topic of surveillance cameras in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia City Council’s Public Safety Committee convened a hearing last Monday about how the city’s closed-circuit television surveillance camera system could be improved.







Vagina Monologues and flash mob

The Vagina Monologues, a movement to combat violence against women, has been a phenomenon that has spread across campus universities nationwide. An important part of the success of the movement has been the fundraising and advertising effort on the part of the cast, crew and community.


BFS Presents Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell — the British-Canadian journalist and author of The New York Times bestsellers “The Tipping Point,” “Blink” and “Outliers” — raised a controversy and a trail of questions Thursday night after his lecture at the Harrison Auditorium in the Penn Museum.








Veolia

As part of its 20-year steam supply agreement with Penn, Veolia Energy agreed to commission two new, lower-emission rapid response boilers to provide the campus’ steam, which could move the city as much as 10 percent towards its energy efficiency goal.


	Engineering professor Vijay Kumar has earned recognition for his research into autonomous flying robots called ‘quadrotors.’

Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science professor Vijay Kumar received a lot of press attention and academic accolades this past year for his work on tiny autonomous robots — called quadrotors for the four rotating rotors that allow them to maneuver through the air.