Michele W. Berger

Arts & Sciences’ Grad Ben Talks give students a chance to shine

Graduate students in the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS) have a unique chance to showcase their research to peers and the overall Penn community. On Friday, March 17, International House Philadelphia at 3701 Chestnut St. will host the inaugural Grad Ben Talks. 

Michele W. Berger

Penn Linguists Investigate Language Borrowing in the Field and the Lab

There’s this idea in linguistics called sociolinguistic borrowing, in which one group of people adopts a feature of another group’s dialect. Usually it results from a positive association with the group that originally used the feature. But Betsy Sneller, a fifth-year Ph.D.

Michele W. Berger

Women will compete against self, not others, to improve performance

A woman is less likely to choose competition than a man, even when she performs equally well, unless competing with herself for a better outcome, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, George Mason University and the German Institute for Economic Research or DIW.

Michele W. Berger