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Student Spotlight with Clare Mullaney
GARDEN STATE: Randolph, N.J.’s Clare Mullaney, a Ph.D. student in the Department of English in the School of Arts & Sciences, was recently awarded a 2016 Irving K. Zola Prize for Emerging Scholars in Disability Studies from the Society for Disability Studies.
Cash bail system can be unjust, Penn Law study finds
A person arrested and charged with a crime is usually brought before a magistrate, without legal representation in most cases, who sets the terms of his or her bail.
Language acquisition in ‘genius’ infants and toddlers
Six-month-old babies do not appear to be capable of doing very much. They may sit up, spit up, look around, perhaps roll over, most certainly cry, and laugh, sleep, babble, and eat.
Penn Helps Enrich Scholarship on Concussions
Talk of concussions has blanketed the news in recent years, most frequently concerning items about sports, especially football.
Making new friends in the midst of the Cold War
The history of Asian Americans in the United States is often told as a story of exclusion to belonging.
Student Spotlight with Sona Dadhania
SCIENCE AMBASSADOR: Voorhees, N.J., native Sona Dadhania, 19, a rising sophomore in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, was recently awarded the 2016 Science Ambassador Scholarship, which is funded by Cards Against Humanity.
A mid-spring’s exhibit featuring two gentlemen at Van Pelt
Commemorating the deaths of legendary writers William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, and celebrating the lives their literary works have led since their passing, the exhibition “The Stage and All the World: Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Early Maps” is on display at Penn Libraries
Fontaine Society helps increase diversity among doctoral students
Named in honor of William Fontaine, who in 1963 became Penn’s first tenured African-American faculty member, the Fontaine Society, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, is one of a portfolio of activities at the University designed to enha
Penn preps for key Pa. primary
The Republican and Democratic Pennsylvania primaries will be held on Tuesday, April 26, and the Keystone State is a key stone in the 2016 presidential election. The Republican primary will award 71 delegates: 17 to the statewide winner and 54 unbound delegates. The Democratic contest will proportionately award 210 delegates.
Penn helps enrich scholarship on concussions
Talk of concussions has blanketed the news in recent years, most frequently concerning items about sports, especially football. Barely a week goes by, it seems, without a story of an athlete retiring early or in his or her prime due to fear of concussions or because of multiple concussions, or of an athlete donating his or her brain to research after passing away.