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Robots in the city: The future of automation
Driverless cars aren’t just the stuff of science fiction anymore; some manufacturers say autonomous vehicles are less than five years away.
AIDS Treatment Benefits Health, Economics of People Without HIV, Penn Study Shows
In rural Malawi, roughly 10 percent of the adult population has HIV.
Pennant initiative brings Penn record-keeping into 21st century
In October, the Next Generation Student Systems (NGSS) team, led by Michael Kearney of Information Systems & Computing and Robert Tisot of Student Registration and Financial Services, successfully launched the first of three major initiatives, a new student billing s
Teens Know Dangers of Driving and Cellphone Use, Yet Do It Anyway, Penn Research Shows
What happens when “Tom Hanks,” “Tom Cruise” and “Kesha” sit around a table? When the talkers are actually teens using researcher-requested pseudonyms they chose to anonymously discuss their driving habits, the results are surprising, maybe even more so than if the real celebrities got together.
Linguists at Penn Document Philadelphia ‘Accent’ of American Sign Language
Jami Fisher, a lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Linguistics, has a long history with American Sign Language.
Penn’s Engheta and Ghrist Earn National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowships
When the Department of Defense offers researchers the chance to think big and take risks, and provides the funding to back it up, scientists tend to get really excited.
Penn experts weigh in on Dutch climate change ruling
As the world prepares for another global conversation about climate change at the annual Conference of Parties (COP21) conference in Paris in December, a court decision in the Netherlands has added a new twist.
Penn Sociologists Dig Deep Into the Needs of South Philly’s Latino Immigrants
Emilio A. Parrado is concerned about how immigrants incorporate into new communities.
Penn IUR/Perry World House confab discusses sustainable global urbanization
What is sustainable global urbanization? Eugenie Birch, co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and the Lawrence C.
Penn, Notre Dame Researchers Mapping Genetic History of the Caribbean
In the island chain called the Lesser Antilles, stretching from the Virgin Islands south to Trinidad and Tobago, a team of researchers lead by Theodore Schurr, an anthropology professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences, is so