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Person smiling at a sewing machine while making masks for COVID-19 face coverings.

Having a strong life purpose eases the loneliness of COVID-19 isolation

Those who felt their life was guided by meaningful values or goals were more willing to engage in COVID-19 protective behaviors.

Book launch reestablishes economic legacy of Sadie T.M. Alexander

A new book spotlights the speeches and writings of Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in economics from Penn and in the U.S.

Students in a parking lot of a school, some playing, one on a laptop, during the pandemic.

The multilayered challenges of broadband expansion

Penn professors identify the challenges ahead for expanding broadband access to people who need it, in areas both rural and urban.

A Juneteenth parade in Philadelphia streets

How businesses have begun to recognize Juneteenth

This Saturday marks Juneteenth, the oldest known holiday honoring the end of slavery in the U.S. Wharton professor Matthew Bidwell looks at how businesses are recognizing the holiday.

Adolescent in the driver’s seat of a car looking at their cell phone.

Use of cell phones while driving may be tied to other risky road behaviors in young adults

Anew study finds that 18- to 24-year-olds who use cell phones while driving are more likely to engage in other risky driving behaviors associated with “acting-without-thinking,” a form of impulsivity.

Eugene Lew reflects on a year without live performances

During the pandemic, the lecturer and director of Sound and Music Technology in the Department of Music switched from organizing live performance events to collaborative online technology.

Seven people dancing outside in a Penn courtyard.

Dancing outside with Pride

Penn’s LGBT Center hosted “Dance Outside w/ Pride,” a virtual and in-person dance class with Philadelphia choreographer Devon Sinclair, as part of its monthlong Pride roster of events for both virtual and in-person celebrations.

Eighteen-wheeler truck driving on the highway at dusk.

The infrastructure bill could fix trucking for the long haul

As the country explores major infrastructure investments, urban truck ports have the potential to increase the fuel efficiency of trucks, reduce air pollution, and improve the lives of truckers who deliver our critical goods.

Young person pressing hands up against a border wall.

Correcting misperceptions about—and increasing empathy for—migrants

Americans dramatically overestimate the number of migrants affiliated with gangs and children being trafficked.

Two people standing outside, with a bridge and trees blurry in the background. One, in a blue button-down shirt and khakis, stands with hands in pockets. The other, in a red dress, stands with arms crossed.

The ins and outs of research, through a yearlong practicum

The course, which just completed its third iteration, takes undergrads through the process, from generating a hypothesis and creating experiments to analyzing results and writing a paper. The most recent cohort studied mentorship and educational inequality.

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