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THIS MONDAY with Dr. Anthea Butler and Dr. Dagmawi Woubsget. To register vist: http://www.sasgov.sas.upenn.edu/events

This is a crucial moment for our community to speak about urgent reforms required of our city and our university, and to reorient our own thinking and plans for action. As a first step, The School of Arts & Sciences Graduate Division and SASgov would like to offer SAS an opportunity to come together through a two-part series of Teach-Ins, titled “Rupture & Coalition: Teach-Ins on Combatting Racism.” To register for these events, visit http://www.sasgov.sas.upenn.edu/events and follow us on instagram for more updates!

Links in comments below!

In solidarity,
Your SASGov Exec Board

ICYMI: To alleviate the some of the financial concerns for students in their final year of funding in 2019-20, Graduate Dean Beth Wenger recently announced that procedures are now in place that will allow SAS graduate students currently in their final year of funding whose research has been impacted by the restrictions resulting from COVID-19 to apply for an ADDITIONAL FULLY FUNDED SEMESTER of graduate school. For more details about the extended funding opportunity, please visit https://www.sas.upenn.edu/graduate-division and/or contact your graduate chair.

(Original announcement about the extended funding opportunity can be found here: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/news/penn-arts-sciences-offers-covid-19-pandemic-graduate-student-funding-extension)

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We hope everyone is healthy and well in this challenging time.
In case you missed it, feel free to take a look at this open letter to the Graduate Dean Beth Wenger from Penn’s Ph.D. students.

UPenn Open Letter to the Dean of Graduate Studies Letter to Beth S. Wenger, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, from the University of Pennsylvania's PhD students.� ************************ Dear Associate Dean Wenger, Universities across North America are implementing hiring slowdowns and freezes that are likely to worsen in the year ahead. We ha...

We at SASgov hope that everyone is staying as safe and healthy as possible these days.

Please note that a mutual aid document is also going around where people offer storage, housing, etc.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VlIzoSqOpD2rJpeipLjUepdFMOxzJ0Ho5sWRitoKLMY/edit?pli=1 =0

Also, for those of you who have undergraduate friends, please let them know that U-Haul is offering one month free storage for college students.

College Students: U-Haul Offers 30 Days Free Self-Storage amid Coronavirus Outbreak As growing concerns surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak continue to disrupt, U-Haul® is stepping forward with an offer of goodwill to college students affected in the U.S. and Canada.

Want to attend Fight Night on March 28 but don't have a ticket yet? SASgov has got your back!
Fill out this form by 3/18 for a chance to win one of our limited Pub&Palestra tickets:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczqVRAXR9VMmiGuz48fUMPkEZ92DW1ONyV-g0LL7cc4cllXQ/viewform

This ticket includes access to the Weigh-in on 3/26 at the 23rd St. Armory, the actual Fight Night at the Palestra on 3/28, but does NOT include access to the afterparty at the Fillmore.

Yours in the fight,
SASgov exec

Fight Night Ticket Entry (ticket not guaranteed) Note that completing this form does NOT guarantee a ticket. This is an entry into a drawing for a chance to win a ticket. All responses are required, as this information will need to be provided to the ticket distributor IF you are chosen to receive a ticket. Please list your SAS email address! Fail...

Thank you to our natural sciences presenters! ( Minus Vö Tiên Phong who missed our photo!)

Last but not least, Vö Tiên Phong of the Physics and Astronomy department presents “an electron wave conspiracy!”

Why does this earth and environmental scientist vacuum the city streets? Philly’s Street gunk has pollutants that Michael O’Shea needs to study

What’s the key to lock out HIV-1 Viral Entry? Cheyenne Chaplain of the Chemistry department reveals her research

Pedro Bernardinelli of the Physics and Astronomy department is on the hunt for for Icy bodies in the outer solar system

What do lasers have to do with photosynthesis? Phoebe Askelson of the Chemistry department looks into our clean energy future

Thank you to our humanities presenters!

Smells are considered to be the least important of the senses - Roman poet Martial would have disagreed. Johanna Kaiser from Classical Studies presents “Making Scents of Ancient Rome”

Why do we pay more attention to certain acts of violence? Weston Bland from the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations presents “an ideal moment of violence? Hierarchies of suffering in Egypt and Beyond”

Marco Avilés of Romance Languages starts with a vignette about his grandmother and links it to broader social change in Peru and stories of collective censorship in his talk “Erasing the Indigenous in Oneself”

Esraa al-Shammari from the department of near Eastern languages and civilizations presents Salim Barakat and the Language of Poetry in Arabic

Shoshana Adler from the English Literature department presents “learning how to feel race: lessons on racism from Medieval England”

How should we measure sustainability? Nicole Welk-Joerger from the History and Sociology of Science presents “It’s not easy eating green!”

Sara Ray from the history and sociology of science department presents “bodies in bottles: the 18th century anatomical cabinet of Frederik Ruysch

What are the conceptions of freedom among communities of migration? Briana Nichols from the Anthropology department presents “No son Libres Allí/They are not free there

Are you ready to play accountability jenga? Shaquilla Harrigan from the Sociology department shows how one NGO Balances Local and International demands

Dina Asfaha from the Anthropology department presents “underground hospital: conceptions of sovereignty and conflict medicine in Post War Eritrea

Thank you to our professional masters student presenters!!

How do pain and pleasure converge on the female body in 18th century novels? Emily Waller from the Masters of Liberal Arts presents her amazing research

Daniel Murray from the Masters of Philosophy in Liberal Arts program presents his fascinating research on end of life options for terminally ill patients.

What is self improvement?? Hear from Masters Student Darlene Marshall “Building the self so you can give it away” in the program of applied positive psychology

Ready to play the generation game? You’re it! Pallavi Gopee from Organizational Dynamics explores intergenerational conflicts in the workplace