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Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center
Penn professor Karen Redrobe

Karen Redrobe is the new director of Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center. (Photo by Lua Beckman) 

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    • Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center

    In her new role, Redrobe will oversee the Center's public programs, and the research work of 29 faculty, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows, and oversee Penn Global collaboration with the Perry World House.
    Learn from the experts with the Penn Science and Lightbulb Cafes
    Katie Barott

    Katie Barott, an assistant professor of biology in the School of Arts and Sciences, will present "Promoting Coral Survival in the Face of Climate Change," the first of the four lectures. (Photo courtesy of Barott)

    Learn from the experts with the Penn Science and Lightbulb Cafes

    The lecture series, hosted by the School of Arts and Sciences, offers a casual setting in which researchers can present their work and engage with the attendees during a Q&A period, giving a glimpse into the research at Penn.

    Jacob Williamson-Rea

    First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment
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    The first particle tracks recorded by the ProtoDUNE detector at CERN usher in a new phase of investigation into neutrinos, the most abundant particles of mass in the universe. (Image: DUNE collaboration)

    First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment

    Neutrinos are the most abundant, and most mysterious, type of matter in the universe. Physicists from the School of Arts and Sciences had a hand in designing a massive instrument, the ProtoDUNE, that has detected the first evidence of these particles of matter.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Exploring the human propensity to cooperate
    Exploring the human propensity to cooperate

    Exploring the human propensity to cooperate

    Working with a nomadic group in Tanzania, one of the last remaining nomadic hunter-gatherer populations, Penn psychologists show that cooperation is flexible, not fixed.

    Michele W. Berger

    Leading the subconscious to accept healthy encouragement
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    Leading the subconscious to accept healthy encouragement

    A study from the Annenberg School for Communication shows that individual's are more receptive to making healthy life choices when motivation stems from others, not the self.

    Penn Today Staff

    The auto bailout 10 years later: Was it the right call?
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    The auto bailout 10 years later: Was it the right call?

    Wharton's John Paul MacDuffie discusses the GM and Chrysler $80 billion bailouts in 2009, and whether the consequences of the free market or the government should have determined the future of a failing company with 3 million of jobs at risk.

    Penn Today Staff

    Philadelphia and Meiji Japan symposium marks 150 years of deep ties
    Centennial Japanese House Image of the Japanese Dwelling from the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

    Philadelphia and Meiji Japan symposium marks 150 years of deep ties

    Scholars from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, and the Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute celebrate the 150th anniversary of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, and the surprising links between Philadelphia and Japan during a political period that set the island nation on a fast track to modernization.