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R. Ramesh adjusts measuring tape at archaeological site.

Looking to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia

An international group of scholars, including archaeologists from the School of Arts & Sciences, synthesized archaeological evidence in South Asia from 12,000 and 6,000 years ago.

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Blurred figures of people walk across a public square in Milano, Italy.

An online resource for learners across the Italian language community

The Pedagogical Repository for Italian Media Activities, or PRIMA, helps students and faculty explore Italian language and culture by using voices and imagery that better represent the culture.

An updated Database of Early English Playbooks: DEEP 2.0

The 20-year-old Database of Early English Playbooks has become an invaluable resource for research on Shakespeare and many other playwrights of his time. The catalogue has been revised and relaunched as DEEP 2.0, with support from Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities.

An aerial view of the Park Forest housing development outside of Chicago in the 1950s.

Redlining and rentals

Historian Brent Cebul in the School of Arts & Sciences is working on a new digital mapping project looking at the impact of Federal Housing Administration policies on the availability of affordable rental housing post-World War II.

Measuring readers of romance

Researchers at Penn's Price Lab for Digital Humanities conducted a quantitative analysis of the romance genre, studying thousands of avid readers and the hundreds of thousands of books in their collections in Goodreads

Tucker Carlson departure and Fox News’ pricey legal woes show the problem with faking ‘authenticity’

Emily Hund of the Annenberg School for Communication says that society loves the idea of people being themselves.

The U.S. is considering a TikTok ban. Philadelphia content creators don’t care

Postdoctoral fellow Frances Corry of the Annenberg School for Communication says that TikTok isn’t going anywhere and that the U.S. needs to include Silicon Valley’s major social media platforms in a conversation about data collection and consumer protection.

The now-faded walls of a medieval structure, reimagined in digital form

History of Art’s Ivan Drpić is working with sophomore Logan Cho to create 3D renderings of what once-gilded paintings on the walls of a medieval church in Serbia would have looked like.

Virtual workshops offer resilience training to Penn community

Penn’s Division of Human Resources, in collaboration with the Positive Psychology Center, is hosting virtual workshops as a part of a six-part series presenting core resilience during COVID.

Young person holding a cardboard sign that reads There is No Planet B #climatestrike.

Doctoral cluster between Penn, Oxford, and Toronto targets environmental injustice

Through a unique partnership between Penn, the University of Oxford, and the University of Toronto, a research group aims to train future leaders in environmental humanities.

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