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Shakespeare and his co-authors, as told by Penn engineers
Shakespeare and his co-authors, as told by Penn engineers
Four hundred years after the death of dramatist William Shakespeare, enduring questions remain about whether the Bard of Avon had an uncredited co-writer on some of his world-famous plays. A team of Penn researchers has found an answer—in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, of all places.
Student Spotlight with Maya Arthur
CHARM CITY: A junior from Baltimore, Md., Maya Arthur, 20, is an English major in the College of Arts & Sciences, with a creative writing concentration.
Africana Studies project sheds light on marginalized populations
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while conducting primary research and ethnography for his dissertation, Michael Hanchard worked alongside several black activists who helped organize street children and children living in government foster service centers to demand access to better housing and education, and an en
For the Record: Muhammad Ali visits Penn
For the Record: Muhammad Ali visits Penn
On March 6, 1968, while he was exiled from boxing for refusing to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, 26, visited Penn and addressed an audience of 2,500 in Irvine Auditorium.
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.
The story of religious tolerance in Flushing, Queens
Following the sack and storm of Rome in 410 C.E., a defeat worshippers of Roman gods blamed on Christianity’s ban on polytheism, St. Augustine defended the Christian faith with furious zeal in his treatise, “Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans,” or “City of God.”
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.