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Climate, public health crises, and fertility
Climate, public health crises, and fertility
Letícia Marteleto, a social demographer new to Penn, does research at the intersection of fertility, Zika, COVID-19, climate conditions, urbanicity, and inequality.
Exploring anxiety and social change
Exploring anxiety and social change
Sociology professor Jason Schnittker teaches the course Anxious Times: Social Change and Fear, based on a book he wrote. Through a data-sensitive approach, students study anxiety and mental health.
Equity in Action Visiting Scholars program launches
Equity in Action Visiting Scholars program launches
The Office of Social Equity & Community welcomes Ruth Naomi Floyd and Shane Claiborne who will engage in research and each hold four events this academic year.
What’s That? Fisher Fine Arts Library windows
What’s That? Fisher Fine Arts Library windows
Shakespeare scholar and Penn lecturer Horace Howard Furness selected aphorisms for windows in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, a building his brother designed.
Penn reports success on Climate and Sustainability Action Plan goals
Penn reports success on Climate and Sustainability Action Plan goals
Sustainability Director Nina Morris recently shared with the Board of Trustees an update on progress.
The philosophy of pregnancy
The philosophy of pregnancy
Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Maja Sidzińska is working to fill a gap in philosophy of science scholarship about what individuality means.
Two Penn schools partner with Camden County to launch virtual reality Narcan training
Two Penn schools partner with Camden County to launch virtual reality Narcan training
The Annenberg School for Communication and School of Nursing continue their efforts to train as many people as possible on administering the lifesaving overdose reversal medication.
Five takeaways on urbanicity and depression research
Five takeaways on urbanicity and depression research
Colin Xu and Robert DeRubeis discuss a recently published meta-analysis of the effects of urbanicity on depression in developing and developed countries.
Study shows promise for iNKT cell platform to treat cancer
Study shows promise for iNKT cell platform to treat cancer
Researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine have shown that invariant natural killer T cells from a healthy donor can persist in MHC-mismatched canines, demonstrating a reliable platform to inform human clinical trials.
Who, What, Why: Juliet Glazer and contemporary violinmaking
Who, What, Why: Juliet Glazer and contemporary violinmaking
The fifth-year Ph.D. student in anthropology and ethnomusicology examines the aesthetics, sound, and valuation of instrument-making in the U.S. and Italy.