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Who, What, Why: Francisco Díaz on anthropology and the modern Maya
Francisco Diaz at the Penn Museum in front of a carved stone pillar

(Image: Eric Sucar)

  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Francisco Díaz on anthropology and the modern Maya

    Francisco Díaz studies Maya contributions to archeology at a time when Indigenous people were viewed as little more than laborers. His research shows that Indigenous people were archaeologists in their own right, working season after season with specialized skills to excavate the past.

    Kristina Linnea García

    From glacier ice, a wealth of scientific data
    Two scientists walk on glacier ice near a river and mountains

    Jade Hatton and Anna Polášková of the CryoEco Group at Prague’s Charles University, collaborators of the BiCycles Lab, work in Greenland’s Upernavik region.

    (Image: Jack Murphy)

    From glacier ice, a wealth of scientific data

    Biogeochemist Jon Hawkings of the School of Arts & Sciences and his lab study glaciers to understand the cycling of elements through Earth’s waters, soils, and air in its coldest regions, with implications for climate change, ecosystem health, and more.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Quakers cook Crimson
    Simone Sawyer, left, drives to the basketball against Harvard at the Palestra. Nick Spinoso, right, drives to the basket against Harvard at Harvard.

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    Quakers cook Crimson

    On Saturday at the Palestra the women’s basketball team avenged its recent loss to Harvard, and on Saturday in Massachusetts, the men’s basketball defeated the Crimson, their fifth-straight win.
    Understanding India’s urban future
    khandela city streets

    An unpaved road in Khandela. Most small towns have poor-quality roads, Thachil says. “They need everything.”

    (Image: Tariq Thachil)

    Understanding India’s urban future

    A two-year project supported by Penn Global and the Center for the Advanced Study of India takes a deep dive into the political workings of India’s rapidly urbanizing landscape.

    Kristina Linnea García

    The future of health research in Malawi
    Four peple standing, posing for the camera. Three are students at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences. The fourth is a professor there, Adamson Muula.

    Adamson Muula (second from left), a professor of public health & epidemiology at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, and students.

    (Image: Courtesy of Young Researchers Forum Malawi and KUHeS Research Support Center)

    The future of health research in Malawi

    A workshop convened by Penn, University College Dublin, and the Young Researchers Forum in Malawi brought together stakeholders to discuss the African nation’s use of technology in health care and the double burden of non-communicable and infectious diseases.

    Michele W. Berger

    Videotaping interrogations in Pennsylvania
    Video still of a police interrogation.

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    Videotaping interrogations in Pennsylvania

    The Quattrone Center has released “Videotaping Interrogations in Pennsylvania,” the first study to review Pennsylvania interrogation practices.

    From Penn Carey Law

    Americans don’t understand what companies can do with their personal data
    Crowd of pedestrians with data points overlapping over the graphic.

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    Americans don’t understand what companies can do with their personal data

    A new survey of 2,000 Americans finds that people don’t understand what marketers are learning about them online and don’t want their data collected, but feel powerless to stop it.

    From Annenberg School for Communication

    A simple intervention that can reduce turnover
    A stressed person in an office.

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    A simple intervention that can reduce turnover

    Work can be hard, but it shouldn’t be hard all the time. New research co-authored by Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer shows that overloading workers with too many difficult tasks in a row makes them more likely to quit.

    From Knowledge at Wharton

    Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts
    African American senior citizen in a wheelchair with a group of people in the background playing a game.

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    Black older Americans age faster than white counterparts

    According to a new Penn study, inequities in socioeconomic resources is the main cause of biological aging as measured by DNA methylation.

    From Penn Memory Center