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  • This Sachs award-winning undergrad is exploring new ways to experience art and music

    Sachs Program grant-winner Saif Khawaja wants to engage engineers and artists alike to experiment with electroluminescent artwork.

    FULL STORY AT Wharton →

  • Pro-Tobacco Videos on YouTube Sway Young Adults on E-Cigarettes and Hookahs

    Misleading pro-tobacco videos on YouTube that promote e-cigarettes and hookahs can make young adults feel more positively about these products, according to new research.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Barbara Fox and Scott Aker, designers of the June 5 memorial

    A Leading by Design discussion with the designers about the creation and unveiling of the memorial, five years to the day since the collapse of the Salvation Army building that killed five people. 

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Psychology’s Thompson-Schill and Kahana honored

    Sharon Thompson-Schill, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and Professor Michael Kahana were honored with the Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award, given for exceptional contributions to the field of experimental and cognitive psychology. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Liberals do drink more lattes

    In “The Real Reason Liberals Drink Lattes”, Diana Mutz and Jahnavi S. Rao discover that attitudes toward globalization proved most meaningful in explaining why liberals are more likely to drink lattes.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Challenging the biological concept of race

    The Program on Race, Science, and Society hosted an international symposium that brought together scholars to discuss how the categorizing of racial difference has significant implications for individuals across the globe. 

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Joseph S. Francisco named President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

    Francisco is an internationally recognized scholar of atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Chemistry, on July 1, 2018. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Landscape architecture students inform revitalization in the Highlands

    Students of the Master of Landscape Architecture program at PennDesign have chosen four sites in the Highlands, a 1.85 million-acre ecoregion from northwestern Connecticut to eastern Pennsylvania to focus a living landscape design intervention directly. 

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Knowledge by the slice: follow the carbon

    Sociology professor Daniel Aldana Cohen calls for a more nuanced, modern view on energy consumption when discussing factors in climate change.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Black in white space

    Black people still feel the need to tread lightly, or not at all, in “white spaces” in light of recent discriminatory attacks and arrests. 

    FULL STORY AT Penn IUR →