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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Penn Student Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
PHILADELPHIA – University of Pennsylvania senior Alexander Jacobs has been selected to receive a 2009 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. He becomes the 16th Penn student to win the award since it was established in 2001.
Solar Energy: Materials, Challenges, and Breakthroughs at the Penn Energy Research Group Symposium
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“Louis I. Kahn: The Making of a Room” Exhibition to Open at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA — “Louis I. Kahn: The Making of a Room,” which opens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery on Feb. 7, is an exhibit of 40 original drawings, exploring Kahn’s concept that the room is a building block of architecture.
Penn's Laurie O. Robinson Is Named Acting Assistant Attorney General for Office of Justice Programs
PHILADELPHIA –-Laurie O. Robinson, director of the University of Pennsylvania Criminology Department’s Master of Science Program, has been appointed acting assistant attorney general of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs.
2009 Winter Reading List
PHILADELPHIA – A group of students, alumni, faculty and staff of Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, has compiled a list of books that are perfect for winter reading. In alphabetical order they are:• “Breakdowns” by Art Spiegelman (2008)
“Obama and the World”: Penn Professors Discuss the Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Obama Administration
“Obama and the World”: Penn Professors Discuss the Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Obama Administration
Danny Glover to Deliver Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice at Penn Jan. 21
WHO: Danny Glover, actor, producer and humanitarianWHAT: 9th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice WHEN: 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 21WHERE: Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Zellerbach Theater, 3680 Walnut St.
In the News
The Wall Street Journal
Suddenly there aren’t enough babies. The whole world is alarmed
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of the School of Arts & Sciences estimates that global fertility last year fell to below global replacement for the first time in human history.
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LancasterOnline.com
Aiding Ukraine is in our national interest
In an opinion essay, School of Engineering and Applied Science third-year Arielle Breuninger from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, explains why the U.S. should have a clear interest in continuing active support for Ukraine against Russia.
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The Wall Street Journal
Homeless or overhoused: Boomers are stuck at both ends of the housing spectrum
Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that boomers have made up the largest share of the homeless population since the ‘80s.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music
Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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The New York Times
Jerome Rothenberg, who expanded the sphere of poetry, dies at 92
Charles Bernstein of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the late Jerome Rothenberg was the ultimate hyphenated person: a poet-critic-anthologist-translator.
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