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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
Penn prof helps UN determine child mortality rate
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.
Penn's Ortner Center helps raise awareness about domestic violence
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.
Penn’s Hanson Works to Protect Cultural Heritage Sites in Syria and Iraq
Katharyn Hanson stands on stage at the World Café Live in Philadelphia in front of a crowd of several dozen. Behind her flash images of antiquities and artifacts that make up much of the cultural legacy in places like Syria and Iraq. Sprinkled throughout are photos of explosions, dark gray plumes masking former heritage sites.
Penn study challenges so-called ‘obesity paradox’
There’s a phenomenon in the field of health care called the "obesity paradox," which says that obese or overweight people with certain medical conditions, such as diabetes, kidney disease, and high blood pressure, are protected from death.
Penn and BU Study Says Obesity Doesn’t Protect Patients With Cardiovascular Disease
Demographers Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania and Andrew Stokes of Boston University set out to solve a puzzle: Why is it that study after study shows obese or overweight people with cardiovascular disease outliving their normal
Penn Researcher Earns Early Career Award for Work on Brain Stimulation
When John Medaglia joined the University of Pennsylvania a year ago as a postdoctoral fellow, he didn’t yet have a precise path. Now it’s a little clearer, thanks to a prestigious honor given out to just 16 young scientists across the country.
Penn Research Offers New Theory About Our Perceptions of the World
New research out of the University of Pennsylvania is filling in gaps between two prevailing theories about how the brain generates our perception of the world.