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Looking at community policing in the Global South
Police officer stands in front of his car on a street near the ocean boardwalk in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(Pre-pandemic image) A police officer watches tourists and locals near Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A new study looks at whether community policing reduces crime and improves trust between the police and citizens in the Global South.

Looking at community policing in the Global South

A collaborative study, co-authored by a group of researchers, including political scientists Dorothy Kronick and Guy Grossman of the School of Arts & Sciences, showed no significant positive effect associated with community policing across a range of countries

Kristen de Groot

Access to HIV self-tests in Kenya
People light red candles in the shape of an AIDS awareness ribbon as darkness sets in

World AIDS Day is celebrated around the globe on Dec. 1 each year to raise awareness in the fight against HIV. In this photo from Nov. 30, 2020, Nepalese people light candles around the symbol of an AIDS ribbon during an Eve of the 33rd World AIDS Day celebration in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Image: Narayan Maharjan/NurPhoto via AP Images)

Access to HIV self-tests in Kenya

Marking World AIDS Day, Harsha Thirumurthy of the Perelman School of Medicine offers four takeaways from his research exploring the impact access to free HIV self-tests had on women in Kenya and on the importance of HIV awareness.

Kristen de Groot

Learning to listen in troubled times
People in masks talk about an exercise in listening

Ernesto Pujol leads a workshop on “Listening in Troubled Times,” part of a lecture on the topic organized by the SNF Paideia Program. (Image: Lisa Marie Patzer)

Learning to listen in troubled times

The SNF Paideia Program and partners featured Ernesto Pujol and Aaron Levy, an artist and an interdisciplinary scholar who have transformed both what it means to listen and what the act of listening can achieve as part of a lecture and workshops.

Kristen de Groot

Past plagues, current pandemics, and public hygiene messaging
Woman leans against a tree with her arms crossed, looking into the camera, with other trees in fall colors behind her on a sunny day

History Ph.D. Candidate Sarah Xia Yu’s research looks at public health and hygiene in Republican China.

Past plagues, current pandemics, and public hygiene messaging

History Ph.D. candidate Sarah Xia Yu discusses her research on public hygiene in China and what the past might tell us about how governments could better communicate public health messages.

Kristen de Groot

Rereleasing ‘Red’: On Taylor Swift’s latest album and music copyright
Taylor Swift

Writer-director Taylor Swift attends a premiere for the short film “All Too Well” at AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, in New York. (Image: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Rereleasing ‘Red’: On Taylor Swift’s latest album and music copyright

Cynthia Dahl, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and director of the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, discusses music copyright and the Swift controversy.

Kristen de Groot

‘Black Families Matter’
Two side by side profile pictures of Cary Coglianese on the left and Dorothy Roberts on the right.

Cary Coglianese (left), director of the Penn Program on Regulation, and PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts.

‘Black Families Matter’

In a lecture organized by the Penn Program on Regulation, PIK Professor Dorothy E. Roberts argued that the U.S. child welfare system is designed to police Black families, not to protect children, and must be abolished and replaced with a new vision of family support and child safety.

Kristen de Groot

Taking a closer look at cryptocurrency
cryptocurrency illustration

Taking a closer look at cryptocurrency

Experts across the University share their thoughts on how cryptocurrency has globally transformed businesses, research, and the environment.

Michele W. Berger, Erica K. Brockmeier, Kristen de Groot, Dee Patel

Veterans at Penn
Many small flags placed in the grass on College Green in front of College Hall.

(Homepage image) American flags dot the grass in front of College Hall.

Veterans at Penn

Jesse Hamilton, Jason Hartwig, and Greg Luttman are incorporating their military experience and varied perspectives into their research and work.

Kristen de Groot

Sudan coup, explained
Person in streets of Sudan in a protest crowd flashes the peace sign.

On Oct. 25, 2021 pro-democracy protesters flash the victory sign as they take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials, in Khartoum, Sudan. (Image: AP Images/Ashraf Idris)

Sudan coup, explained

Ali Dinar of the department of Africana Studies discusses last week’s military coup, and what comes next.

Kristen de Groot

Past confronts present at ‘History Speaking’ lecture series
Books about U.S. history are stacked on top of one another

In this age of social change and global challenge, history can offer fresh perspectives and important distinctions on current events.

Past confronts present at ‘History Speaking’ lecture series

Penn historians will present a series of lively discussions of historical issues that seek to better orient attendees in the current moment.

Kristen de Groot

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