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Kathleen Morrison on biodiversity and climate change
The faculty director of the Environmental Innovations Initiative, her research spans anthropology, archaeology, and paleoecology, involving the study of historic climates and environments, with a focus on South Asia.
News・ Science & Technology
Deconstructing the structural elements of a lesser-known microbe
Researchers shed light on archea, a single cell microorganism, to discover how proteins determine what shape a cell will take and how that form may function.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Centuries of ‘TikTalk’
The media popularity of the vocal trend called “TikTalk,” or a combination of uptalkand vocal fry, is actually nothing new, says linguist Mark Liberman.
News・ Campus & Community
Passport drive opens up the world to undergrads
Penn Abroad provided fully funded passports to undergraduates who have never held a passport before, with priority given to students who receive financial aid.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
‘Ladysitting’ on stage
The new play “Ladysitting” at the Arden Theatre Co. is by Penn English faculty and alumna Lorene Cary, based on her memoir about caring for her grandmother in the last of her 101 years.
News・ Sports
Men’s squash team wins national championship
The third-ranked Quakers triumphed over top-ranked Trinity on Sunday to win their first Potter Cup in school history.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
In Japan, teaching a multitude of creative anthropology practices
Penn anthropologists in the Center for Experimental Ethnography led workshops at Ritsumeikan University on performance, film, mapping, sound, and collaging.
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Imagining a sustainable future in Southern Greenland
Billy Fleming and landscape architecture students in the Weitzman School of Design brainstormed possibilities for a green economy in a former mining town in one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth.
News・ Education, Business, & Law
Penn students take first at the Thurgood Marshall Moot Court regionals
Penn Carey Law’s Kanyinsola Ajayi and Ty Parks captured first place in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Competition, and advance to the competition’s national championship.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Does stereotyping impact cooperative behavior?
Researchers from Penn and Princeton develop a model to evaluate how reputation and indirect reciprocity affects cooperative behaviors.