Michele Berger

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

Jami Fisher, a lecturer in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Linguistics, has a long history with American Sign Language.

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.

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.

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.

Emilio A. Parrado is concerned about how immigrants incorporate into new communities.

What is sustainable global urbanization? Eugenie Birch, co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and the Lawrence C.

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

The child mortality rate compares the number of deaths of children under the age of 5 in a country per 1,000 births in a year. In the United States, the number is 7. In the United Kingdom and Israel, the number is 4. In China, the number is 11. In Iceland and Finland, the number is 2. In Iraq, it is 32, while it is 48 in India, 69 in Haiti, 91 in Afghanistan, and 157 in Angola.

Every minute, nearly 20 people in the United States face physical abuse by an intimate partner, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). Every nine seconds a woman gets assaulted or is beaten. One in 3 women will become the victim of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. For men, that number is 1 in 4.