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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Penn MSW Students Named Council on Social Work Education Fellows
Three master’s students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice are among 40 recipients of the Council on Social Work Education Minority Fellowship Program Youth Master’s Student award.Alexandria Okeke, Pablo David Rodriguez and Kira White have been selected to join the third cohort of CSWE “Now is the Time” students.
Penn Receives Grant Supporting Tobacco-free Campus Initiatives
The University of Pennsylvania has received a $20,000 grant under the American Cancer Society and CVS Health Foundation’s Tobacco-Free Generation Campus Initiative. The award, timed to coincide with the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 17, recognizes the University’s ongoing efforts to create a tobacco-free campus culture.
Penn’s Inaugural Digital Humanities Fellows Study Art, Urban History and Media
For University of Pennsylvania senior Konhee Chang, Kandinsky’s “Circles in a Circle” painting sings. Or at least it will soon.
Research From Penn Prof Michael Leja Explores the Art of Elections
Michael Leja, a history of art professor and chair of the history of art graduate group at the University of Pennsylvania says today’s standard of hyper-mediatized presidential campaigns started with the United States presidential election of 1840, the first in which images
Penn Honors Seven Alumni Including Creative Spirit Awardee Hollywood’s Jonathan Avnet
The University of Pennsylvania will honor seven distinguished alumni at the 2016 Alumni Award of Merit Gala on Friday, Oct. 28.
Q&A: Egyptologist David Silverman on King Tut, Hieroglyphs and His Time at Penn
David Silverman has loved Egypt since he was a child visiting the famous New York City museums with his aunt and brother.
Penn’s Devesh Kapur Co-authors Book on Success of America’s ‘Other One-Percenters’
A new book examines the growth and success of the Indian-American community in the United States, both Indian-born and American-born. The Other One Percent: Indians in America is a collaborative book written by Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for Advanced Study of India and a professor of political science in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Engineers’ Network Analysis Uncovers New Evidence of Collaboration in Shakespeare’s Plays
The question of whether William Shakespeare truly wrote every word in every scene of his plays has been circulating since the time of The Bard himself.
Penn to Celebrate Ribbon Cutting for New Innovation Hub, Pennovation Center
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and David L. Cohen, chair of Penn’s Board of Trustees, invite Penn students, faculty, staff, alumni, trustees and friends, as well as the region’s business and tech community, to a ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony from 12:30 to 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 28.
AI Predicts Human Rights Trial Outcomes, According to Penn, UCL, Sheffield Study
Artificial intelligence methods developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University College London and the University of Sheffield accurately predicted the results of judicial decisions from the European Court of Hu
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Cherelle Parker promised 30,000 units of ‘affordable housing’ as a candidate. She’s watered down that goal as mayor
Vincent Reina of the Weitzman School of Design says that 30,000 new units of affordable housing is a realistic goal that the city of Philadelphia could meet.
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Newsweek
There is one major element missing from the debate on kids and social media
In an opinion essay, PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that gun violence needs to be part of the conversation about how smartphones and social media impact young people.
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BBC
Presidential candidates on trial
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center discusses the impact Donald Trump’s conviction or imprisonment could have on his presidential campaign.
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KQED Radio (San Francisco)
Violence escalates in Sudan as civil war enters second year
Ali Ali-Dinar of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses the forces driving the civil war in Sudan and how the global community is responding.
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