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Taylor Dysart, a doctoral candidate in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of History and Sociology of Science, probes modern science’s enthrallment with the powerful Amazonian intoxicant ayahuasca.
Economist Harold L. Cole of the School of Arts & Sciences offers an overview of what could happen should the U.S. default on debt payments because no spending deal is reached.
In an honors thesis for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, 2023 grad Talia Fiester examines “Neoliberal Love and the Pathology of Gen Z’s Singledom.”
Students create films to document the reimagining of the Penn Museum’s Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries.
Paul Offit and Dorothy Roberts have been recognized for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields.
Keisha-Khan Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements in the Americas, is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Africana Studies.
Through recent research, archaeologist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Lynn Meskell has continued to highlight how World Heritage Sites have become flashpoints for conflict and out of touch with local communities.
For 150 years, Ivy Day has been an annual tradition at Penn, with each graduating class installing at least one new plaque, planting a sprig of ivy, and recognizing individual achievements.
In her new book, Kristen R. Ghodsee of the School of Arts & Sciences takes readers on a tour through history and around the world to explore places that have dared to reimagine how we might live our daily lives.
Mark Devlin and colleagues have been awarded an NSF grant to upgrade the prominent observatory in the high Atacama Desert in Northern Chile.
Two studies by the Urban Health Lab at Penn found that gun violence dropped significantly in neighborhoods where vacant parcels were turned into regularly maintained green spaces.
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Justin McDaniel of the School of Arts & Sciences is challenging his students to adopt monastic traditions in order to rethink the purpose of education.
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Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences believes that the rise in climate misinformation from trolls and bots is organized and orchestrated by opponents of climate reform.
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Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the film “The Day After Tomorrow” trivializes concerns about the climate crisis because it represents a caricature of the science.
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John Ghazvinian of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the reality of a serious armed conflict between the U.S. and Iran is almost unthinkable for either nation.
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