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  • Black American and Afro-Brazilian incarceration rates

    2018 graduate Nia Kaudo explores the 20th-century policies that have led to mass incarceration in the U.S. and Brazil.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • New study finds visuals of vaping in e-cigarette advertisements increase anti-vaping beliefs and policy opinions

    Astudy from the Annenberg School for Communication, published in Human Communication Research, shows that when vaping portrayals within commercials are reminiscent of traditional cigarette smoking, viewers are likely to associate vaping with smoking. 

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • The rise of women in politics in 2018

     a new OMNIA Podcast, Dawn Teele, Janice and Julian Bers assistant professor of political science, discusses the unprecedented number of women running for office in this year's midterm elections.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Stockton, CA puts guaranteed income to test, Penn SP2 researcher will evaluate implications

    Is universal basic income the solution to economic instability and inequality? That’s what the city of Stockton, CA plans to find out, with the support of local leadership, the Economic Security Project, income equality experts like Amy Castro Baker, and the residents of Stockton.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • South Whitehall Design project fosters student and community engagement

    Penn Praxis, the social impact design and community engagement consulting arm of PennDesign, has been working with the South Whitehall township to formulate a series of design ideas for improving its streetscapes and prominent public places.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • India's energy minister to receive Penn's Carnot Prize

    On October 19, 2018, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design will award its fourth annual Carnot Prize to the Honorable Shri Piyush Goyal, India’s former minister of power and renewables and current minister of railways and coal. 

    FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →

  • Jonathan Moreno receives bioethics lifetime achievement award

    The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities has awarded Penn Medicine bioethicist and PIK professor, Jonathan D. Moreno, its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Moreno is being honored for his “innumerable scholarly writings, service to national and international commissions and contributions to public discourse on bioethics.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Alef is for Allah, C is for cute

    Humanities professor Jamal J. Elias studies the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies in a new book, a visual representation of childhood in Islamic societies.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Puabi's ever-evolving diadems

    Three individual pieces of Queen Puabi’s diadems, a collection of 10,000 lapis lazuli beads and golden pendants, are on display currently at Penn Museum’s Middle East Galleries. They were once displayed as a six-piece set, and prior to that were all part of a monolithic object, raising the question of how were they originally originally assembled and worn in the first place. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Museum Blog →

  • Policy options for improving the resilience of U.S. transportation infrastructure

    Arecent paper examines the country's transportation infrastructure suffers from lack of investment and overexposure to risk. Much infrastructure is also underinsured, which leads to an over-reliance on government disaster funding. 

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →