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Shooting hoops with Ashley Russell
Ashley Russell of the women's basketball team poses with a ball on the Palestra court.

Shooting hoops with Ashley Russell

The senior guard and co-captain of the women’s basketball team talks a shooter’s mentality, rebounding at the guard position, and the key to avoiding turnovers.
How gospel music gave birth to rock and soul
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How gospel music gave birth to rock and soul

Capping a 16-month project funded by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, WXPN will debut a four-part radio documentary on Feb. 4, sharing the stories of the early beginnings and influence of gospel music.
Procrastinating on climate change
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Procrastinating on climate change

Joseph Kable, Baird Term Professor of Psychology, studies how people make (or don’t make) decisions. He calls the circumstances around climate change a “perfect storm of features” that’s leading us to not act. 

Penn Today Staff

Copyright expiration releases works to the world
Cover of book Vinzi by Johanna Spyri showing child sitting in a windowsill and the title page of the book reading Vinzi a story of the Swiss Alps by Johanna Spyri translation by Elisabeth P. Stork and Illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk. Philadelphia and London J.B. Lippincott Company 1923.

The Penn Libraries is digitizing and sharing books published in 1923 that have come into the public domain. One is "Vinzi a Story of the Swiss Alps," by Johanna Spyri, author of the more-famous "Heidi." The edition is the first U.S. translation to English from German, published in Philadelphia.  

Copyright expiration releases works to the world

Works from 1923 have entered the public domain after a 20-year extension on copyright protections. The Penn Libraries is digitizing unique works to share.
How the appliance boom moved more women into the workforce
An old-fashioned washing machine, which looks like two wooden barrels on legs, next to each other and connected by large wiring.

Before running water and electricity, a single load of laundry could take four hours to wash. But with the advent of mechanical appliances, like the washing machine above, that dropped to 41 minutes.

How the appliance boom moved more women into the workforce

A new book from economist Jeremy Greenwood looks at the effects of technological progress on home life.

Michele W. Berger

AD Calhoun named chair of NCAA Division I Council
AD Grace Calhoun poses in the Palestra.

AD Calhoun named chair of NCAA Division I Council

M. Grace Calhoun, director of athletics and recreation at Penn, has been named the incoming chair of the NCAA Division I Council, a high-level group responsible for the day-to-day decision-making for Division I.

Penn Today Staff

Expert voices 2019: Why cities?
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Expert voices 2019: Why cities?

Housing the majority of the global population, cities have come to define and shape the overarching challenges of the 21st century. The speed and scale of their development is unprecedented, raising complex questions about how to address the changes they bring to communities around the world.

Penn Today Staff

Why is CBD oil everywhere?
two cocktails in mugs with lemon slices and cannabis plant leaves

Why is CBD oil everywhere?

From body balms to cocktails, CBD oil has exploded on the market, despite a lack of clinical trials and wildly different dosages among products. Marcel Bonn-Miller explains the science behind the fad.