Michele W. Berger

Four years ago, Penn launched a pilot initiative called the Digital Humanities Forum to generate interest in and buzz about new computational methods of humanities research on campus.

In one large metropolitan area, arraignment decisions made with the assistance of machine learning cut new domestic violence incidents by half, leading to more than 1,000 fewer such post-arraignment arrests annually, according to new findings from the University of Pennsylvania.

It’s often said that community centers around food, and for Penn students who are also observant Jews, a focal point is Penn Hillel at 39th Street and Locust Walk, and the tables in Falk Dining Commons.

Despite several safe drug therapies available to help smokers quit, three-quarters report relapsing within six months of a quit attempt.

Richard Berk, a professor of criminology and statistics in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School, and Susan B.

In adjacent rooms at Penn’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction (CIRNA) in the Perelman School of Medicine, a man flips through a magazine, and a woman fiddles with her phone.

By Niharika Gupta The summer before her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, Tabeen Hossain decided to take her academic journey in environmental science and policy abroad to Berlin and Rotterdam. In those two cities, she discovered the cultural aspects of sustainability, environmentalism and policymaking.

In the ongoing fight against drug addiction, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine have discovered a unique application for an FDA-approved drug curr

The world has room for two kinds of superheroes, says James O.

It’s not easy to make confusing mathematics topics understandable, let alone interesting, to non-mathematicians, but University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist has figured out the formula.