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Building big, giant worlds in small, miniature places
The world of human beings is not given to them. It is something they must create.
Du Bois at Penn: An epilogue
More than 100 years have passed since W.E.B. Du Bois wrote “The Philadelphia Negro” and the United States is a much different country. America has grown up and become a more cultured, tolerant, and civilized nation.
W.E.B. Du Bois at Penn
Susan Wharton, a wealthy philanthropist from the family that gave the Wharton School its name, set in motion the chain of events that brought historian and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois to Penn.
Student Spotlight with Alexa Hoover
ACCIDENTAL BEGINNINGS: Sophomore Alexa Hoover started playing field hockey by accident. When she was 4 years old, her mom tried to sign her up for soccer at the local YMCA, but registration was full.
Project by Penn linguists documents Philadelphia accent in ASL
Like English or any other language, American Sign Language (ASL) has distinct variants that differ from region to region.
1970-71 men’s basketball team to enter Big 5 Hall of Fame
To commemorate its 60th anniversary, the Philadelphia Big 5—a college basketball collective comprised of Penn, La Salle, Saint Joseph’s, Villanova, and Temple—is for the first time inducting noteworthy teams into the Big 5 Hall of Fame, one from each member school.
Geology Garden dates back millions of years
A tour of the Class of 1957 Geology Garden is a virtual pass through time, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even a billion years.
The complex history of standardizing time
The world today is very neatly divided into 24 efficient, well-ordered time zones that correspond with the 24 hours in a day. If it’s 2 p.m. in Philadelphia, it’s 11 a.m. in Los Angeles, 7 p.m. in London, 8 p.m. in Paris, 9 p.m. in Tel Aviv, and 4 a.m. tomorrow in Seoul. Time is uniform, but it wasn’t always so. Standardization didn’t begin to emerge until the late 19th century.
Staff Q&A with Angela Goldston
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