Penn Professor Examines the Challenges of Multicultural Citizenship in England
PHILADELPHIA -- Unlike the United States, Britain has only recently become a nation of immigrants. The influx of former colonial subjects -- including Sikhs from Punjab in northern India -- has forced the nation to reconsider what it means to be a British citizen.
Kathleen Hall, an anthropologist and associate professor in the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, explores how Britain has responded to the challenges of immigration in her book, "Lives in Translation: Sikh Youth as British Citizens" (University of Pennsylvania Press).
"I tell a different kind of immigration story," Hall said, "one that moves beyond portraying the children of immigrants as simply
Griffin Pitt, right, works with two other student researchers to test the conductivity, total dissolved solids, salinity, and temperature of water below a sand dam in Kenya.
Griffin Pitt’s upbringing made her passionate about water access and pollution, and Penn has given her the opportunity to explore these issues back home in North Carolina and abroad.
Helping robots work together to explore the Moon and Mars
Penn Engineers, NASA, and five other universities tested robotic systems designed to help unmanned explorers cooperate in the dunes of White Sands, New Mexico, paving the way for Moon and Mars exploration.
From framework to actions: Provost John L. Jackson Jr. talks Penn Forward
In a Q&A, Provost John L. Jackson Jr. explains the relationship between the strategic framework In Principle and Practice and Penn Forward—a new University-wide process and action plan that will advance Penn forward for the next decade and beyond.
