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A complete list of stories featured on Penn Today.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
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.
News・ Campus & Community
Wharton Professor Katy Milkman and Mayor Jim Kenney have announced the “Philly Vax Sweepstakes,” which gives vaccinated Philadelphians a chance to win up to $50,000.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
The educator, organizer, and alumnus discusses his six decades of activism, growing up in the Black Bottom, studying and teaching at Penn, his work at CHOP, the student strike of 1967, the Vietnam War, Frank Rizzo, Donald Trump, school choice, gun violence, the Chauvin trial, and why he thinks racism should be declared a national public health crisis.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Marcus Wright, undergraduate program manager and academic coordinator in the Department of Sociology and doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education, analyzes academic messaging to expose blind spots.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Produced by the Provost’s Office, the brochure highlights groundbreaking research from each of Penn’s 12 schools. This year it is online-only.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
In a Wharton study, chair of the Statistics Department Dylan Small says reasons for the disparity include institutional racism, underinvestment in communities, and housing segregation.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Faculty from five schools at the University took part in a virtual panel discussion to unpack the policies, messages, and conditions that led to the events of Jan. 6.
Podcast・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
In the latest episode of Penn Today’s “Understand This ...” podcast series, Penn experts discuss the importance of cross-cultural communication in today’s world.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Labels for what happened Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol were very different from those used to describe the Black Lives Matter movement or the 2020 election results. How much weight do individual words actually have? It depends on the context.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
On the eve of a presidential inauguration following a historic election and its aftermath, experts from across the University weigh in on where we stand as a country.