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Field hockey comes thisclose to knocking off No. 12 Syracuse
The Quakers played even with the Orange all game before falling after a penalty shootout.
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Football rumbles to 30-10 win over Lehigh
Junior running back Karekin Brooks had 16 carries for 163 yards and 3 touchdowns.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Is ‘Democracy in Trouble?’
“Democracy in Trouble?” is the focus of a year’s worth of programming at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. Its 2018-19 Speaker Series examines and counters trends regarding the ongoing threats to democracy in the United States and around the world.
News・ Campus & Community
Learn from the experts with the Penn Science and Lightbulb Cafés
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.
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PennDesign preservationists complete digital documentation of Pa.’s slatelands
Frank Matero and John Hinchman’s website detailing the industrial landscape of the Pennsylvania Slate Belt, a 22-square-mile expanse of quarries, towns, transportation networks, and industrial wreckage, serves as a historical preservation tool via digital humanities.
News・ Science & Technology
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.
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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.
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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.
News・ Health Sciences
Hospitals prepare for future disasters to prevent shortages of life-saving drugs
Fallout from previous hurricanes has made hospital staff more aware of the risks natural disasters bring, and are proactive in anticipating drug shortages and supplies.
News・ Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
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.