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Linking teen driving behaviors to ADHD, other mental health factors
The driving simulator at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

The driving simulator at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Linking teen driving behaviors to ADHD, other mental health factors

Teen drivers are three times more likely to get into a fatal crash than their more-experienced counterparts. New research found a link between mistakes these new drivers make and self-reported ADHD.

Michele W. Berger

Filmmaker John Waters talks art, the meaning of ‘filthy,’ and humor as ‘terrorism’
John Waters Portrait

Filmmaker, author, comedian, and visual artist John Waters will deliver a 90-minute talk on April 24 as part of an announcement program commemorating the first grant recipients from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation. 

Filmmaker John Waters talks art, the meaning of ‘filthy,’ and humor as ‘terrorism’

In a discussion with John Waters that previews his world tour performance-talk on campus on April 24th, the legendary comedic and camp filmmaker discusses his take on humor, culture, art and aging.
New MOAS program promotes international cooperation and diplomacy
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New MOAS program promotes international cooperation and diplomacy

Budding diplomats and scholars in the University of Pennsylvania’s Latin American and Latino Studies program engaged with Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States, at the Wharton Latin America Conference. 

Jacquie Posey

Making Mongolian ger dwellings more energy-efficient
Interior of Mongolian ger

Inside a ger on site at the Pennovation Center, researchers are using sensors and other instruments to measure how to make these traditional dwellings more energy-efficient and impervious to the cold.

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Making Mongolian ger dwellings more energy-efficient

Gers, called yurts in Russian, are the traditional one-room round, tent dwellings of Mongolian herders. In the last twenty years, about half of Mongolia’s population has settled in permanent “ger districts” around the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, bringing their nomadic tents with them.  

Jacquie Posey

Penn’s Bloomers take on Shakespeare
Bloomers Spring Show 2018

Photo: ImageFlo/Lifetouch

Penn’s Bloomers take on Shakespeare

At the University of Pennsylvania, the nation’s first all-female collegiate musical and sketch comedy troupe, Bloomers, has just wrapped up its spring 2018 show, “Shakespeare in Bloom,” at the Iron Gate Theater.
A medieval confluence
Penn Professors Sarah Guérin, Mary Caldwell, Ada Maria Kuskowski

Three new assistant professors at Penn—Music’s Mary Channen Caldwell, History of Art’s Sarah Guérin, and History’s Ada Maria Kuskowski—all focus on medieval studies, specifically the 13th-century in France. Photo by Eric Sucar.

A medieval confluence

Three newly-hired Penn assistant professors, all transplants to Philadelphia, found each other soon after they arrived and discovered that, although they were in different areas of study, they all focused on the Middle Ages, specifically 13th-century France.