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  • Penn IUR launches new public finance website

    A new resource launched by the Penn Institute for Urban Research aggregates news, data, and analyses by expert researchers on state and local public finance.

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  • Department of Defense grant recipient to lead study of autonomous systems and AI

    A research team led by political science professor Michael C. Horowitz will conduct social science research that is relevant to national security, focusing on human behavior and artificial intelligence. 

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  • Bridging studio and research, students explore Israel-Lebanon border

    Two graduate students explore the physical, political and historical borderlands between two countries in conflict, bringing landscape design concepts outside the studio and embedding them in a physical space that has naturalized war into its terrain.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Design Weekly →

  • 2018 Social Policy and Practice Awards

    At the School of Social Policy & Practice's 2018 Commencement, 12 outstanding students, staff, and faculty will be recognized with awards highlighting their contributions to social justice, research, and the Penn community.

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  • 2018 Arts and Sciences Dean’s Scholars

    A list of this year's 20 students honored for their academic success.

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  • FactCheck.org wins 2018 Webby Award for best politics site

    For the fifth consecutive year, FactCheck.org has won the Webby Award for best politics website from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. The 22nd Annual Webby Awards honor excellence on the internet, including websites, advertising, apps, and videos.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Newly endowed Libraries position honors its namesake, H. Carton Rogers III

    To cap his tenure and honor his leadership as Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, a $3 million dollar endowment gift has been made from the Penn Libraries Board of Overseers and the Orrery Society Council in H. Carton Rogers III's name. 

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  • A new lens for genocide study

    Sarah Jewett approaches genocide studies as a criminology graduate student empirically and subjectively. Trained in fine arts, Jewett has tailored her studies to contextualize, understand and predict human behavior by applying objective statistical analysis to organize the mechanisms of genocide. 

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  • Seeking historical Judas

    A fascination with Judas Iscariot drives Ph.D. candidate Mariah Junglan Min to mine texts from the Middle Ages for history and details on the mysterious Biblical figure.

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  • Sam Chan named 2018-20 Gerbner Fellow

    As a Gerbner Fellow, Chan will combine new research on gay and lesbian dating app users in China with his dissertation research on dating, intimacy, identity politics and dating apps for a forthcoming book manuscript.

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