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What can be done to prevent and resist image-based abuse?
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What can be done to prevent and resist image-based abuse?

A virtual symposium held by Annenberg’s Center for Media at Risk and the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative brought together experts from around the world to analyze the abuse commonly referred to as “revenge porn.”

From Annenberg School for Communication

The philosophy of visual studies
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The Class of 2022 has eight visual studies majors, including (from left) Zuqi Fu of Beijing, Eli Ricanati of Santa Monica, California, and Morgan Jones of Albany, New York.

The philosophy of visual studies

Founded 20 years ago, the interdisciplinary major of visual studies creates a bridge for students to combine interests, including philosophy, art history, architecture, fine arts, and psychology.
Kazakhstan unrest, explained
Protesters and riot police stand on a street in Almaty, Kazakhstan, as smoke rises in the background

Riot police block protesters in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (Image: AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov)

Kazakhstan unrest, explained

Philip M. Nichols of the Wharton School and the Russia and East European Studies program in the School of Arts & Sciences offers some background on the protests and violence and why what happens in Kazakhstan matters to the region and the world.

Kristen de Groot

Why borrowers resist using their homes as collateral
Two adults and a child watch a housepainter painting shutters on the front of the house.

Why borrowers resist using their homes as collateral

A Wharton study examines some of the aversion homeowners have to posting their homes as collateral, even when having trouble making mortgage payments.

From Knowledge at Wharton

A structural blueprint of nanoparticles to target acute lung inflammation
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A structural blueprint of nanoparticles to target acute lung inflammation

Targeting neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that, when overactive, contributes to acute lung inflammation, is a potential new route to diagnose and treat acute respiratory distress syndrome.

From Penn Medicine News

Manning the middle with Brian O’Neill
Standing on Franklin Field wearing a Penn football shirt, Brian O'Neill holds a football with both hands. A Penn football helmet sits at right.

Manning the middle with Brian O’Neill

As the college football season comes to a close, the fifth-year senior discusses his career as a Quaker, takeaways from Penn’s season, his plans for the future, and his pick for Monday's national championship game.
How consumers and retailers can reduce returns
A large pile of discarded shirts.

How consumers and retailers can reduce returns

Wharton’s Gad Allon looks at how both retailers and consumers alike can improve the reverse supply chain and increase awareness of the toll that a massive rate of returns takes.

From Knowledge at Wharton

Empowering community engagement through theory and practice
people outside wearing masks taking surveys on their phones while standing next to a table covered with donuts

This fall, Participatory Cities, an SNF Paideia Program Course, delved into the history, methodology, and impacts of community participation and stakeholder involvement processes. Students took what they learned in the classroom and conducted their own engagement activities on campus, such as this freshman tabling event and survey. (Image: Mya Gordon)

Empowering community engagement through theory and practice

This fall, students applied community participation and stakeholder involvement processes to conduct their own outreach activities on campus as part of Participatory Cities, a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program course.

Erica K. Brockmeier