In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
This past fall, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning Allison Lassiter led a class called Sensing the City, in which fifteen students from the City Planning, Masters of Urban Spatial Analytics, and Integrated Product Design programs used Arduino to develop concepts for collecting data from and interacting with the urban environment.
FULL STORY AT Penn Design →
The 2019 High Impact Giving Guide has been released, offering expert advice on how donors make the most change with philanthropic gifts during the giving season and year-round.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Research scholar Neysun Mahboubi hosts a podcast produced by Penn's Center for the Study of Contemporary China.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
A look at how emerging factors could shift people away from cities.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
A new essay collection, the result of a collaboration by the Child Welfare League of America and the Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research, addresses the need for more substantive research and increased awareness around child maltreatment within underrepresented and isolated populations.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
Aminata Sy has been named to the 2019 class of Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellows, which supports winners through two years of graduate school as well as entry into the Foreign Service corps.
FULL STORY AT Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships →
Social scientists and psychologists have long attempted to develop strategies for intergroup conflicts, with limited success. A new paper from Boaz Hameiri offers a solution he calls paradoxical thinking, intended to shock the participants with its absurdity and cause them to reevaluate their beliefs.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
English professors David L. Eng and Melissa Sanchez explain how theory informs their research.
FULL STORY AT OMNIA →
Under the instruction of Annenberg lecturer and postdoctoral fellow Samira Rajabi, undergraduate students in Memes, Media, and Meaning are diving into the world of memes to answer this question: What does this online cultural phenomenon reveal about our understanding of the world?
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
Bob Schoenberg, a double alumnus from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2), was recently honored with the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Association of Social Workers Pennsylvania Chapter.
FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →
