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Donovan Schaefer says there is no division between thinking and feeling
Left, Donovan Schaefer; right: Book cover of the book, Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism After Darwin.

Donavan Schaefer is an assistant professor of religious studies. (Image: OMNIA)

Donovan Schaefer says there is no division between thinking and feeling

In his new book, “Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin”, the assistant professor of religious studies posits that thinking and feeling are intertwined.

From Omnia

Do shared life experiences make it harder to understand others?
Two children holding hands between two adults in a sunlit grassy area.

Do shared life experiences make it harder to understand others?

A new Annenberg School of Communication study reveals that having similar life experiences can actually diminish our ability to perceive other people’s unique feelings and circumstances.

Alina Ladyzhensky

SNF Paideia Program expands, thanks to new grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Group of people gathered together by a building entrance.

During a celebration in May 2022, current fellows in the SNF Paideia Program welcomed the 2025 cohort.

SNF Paideia Program expands, thanks to new grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Increased funding will enable the SNF Paideia Program at Penn to strengthen a commitment to the civic mission of higher education on campus and beyond with enhanced course offerings, an expanded fellowship program, and more event programming.
Parental nicotine use and addiction risk for children
A put-out cigarette standing on its end, next to half of another crumpled cigarette. In the background are two whole cigarettes.
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    • Parental nicotine use and addiction risk for children

    In research done using rats, Penn Nursing’s Heath Schmidt and colleagues found that males that engaged in voluntary nicotine use had offspring more likely to do so, too. Some offspring also developed impaired memory and anxiety-like behavior.

    Michele W. Berger

    The factors that lead to eviction by default
    Entrance to Philadelphia Municipal Court.

    The factors that lead to eviction by default

    A new study from Penn Law’s David Hoffman links tenant evictions with long courthouse commute times, and finds that adopting video technology in court significantly reduce barriers to justice.

    From Penn Carey Law

    Penn Dental’s Penntorship connects with the West Philadelphia community
    Two smiling women stand in blue medical scrubs on a sunny day.

    Kylie Schlesinger (left) and Julie Berenblum (right) founded the Penntorship program to connect mentors from the Penn Dental school to students from West Philadelphia High School. (Image: Courtesy of Kylie Schlesinger and Julie Berenblum)

    Penn Dental’s Penntorship connects with the West Philadelphia community

    Amid the COVID lockdown, Penn Dental Medicine students Kylie Schlesinger and Julie Berenblum founded a mentorship program for high schoolers in West Philadelphia.

    Luis Melecio-Zambrano

    Frontline voices from the pandemic’s early days
    Guobin Yang and the cover of the book called "The Wuhan Lockdown by Guobin Yang." The image shows a person fully covered in what appears like a hazmat suit next to a person in a hospital bed. They are outside.

    Frontline voices from the pandemic’s early days

    In his new book, “The Wuhan Lockdown,” Guobin Yang uses personal diaries from that city’s residents to recreate how it felt at the epicenter of what was then a scary and unknown new virus.

    Michele W. Berger

    SCOTUS limits federal court review in immigration cases
    Small child being detained by U.S. Border Patrol.

    Migrants are detained while being processed by US Border Patrol before boarding a bus to a detention center on June 1, 2022 in La Joya, Texas. (Image: John Lamparski/SIPA US/Sipa via AP Images)

    SCOTUS limits federal court review in immigration cases

    Penn Carey Law School’s Sarah Paoletti says the recent Supreme Court decisions will have a “devastating impact on non-citizens and their family members.”