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School of Arts & Sciences
Penn Live Arts embraces hybrid shows for spring season
Penn Live Arts embraces hybrid shows for spring season
A first for Penn Live Arts, several performances at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts this season will be both in-person and live-streamed.
It takes a village, especially during a global pandemic
It takes a village, especially during a global pandemic
A Penn LDI and Penn Population Aging Research Center team tracks behavior and attitudes in Malawi during COVID-19’s first wave.
Can Russia be stopped?
Can Russia be stopped?
Alexander Vershbow, former U.S. ambassador to Russia and Perry World House Distinguished Visiting Fellow, discusses Russia’s military buildup along the Ukrainian border that’s stoking invasion fears.
After the shutdown, what comes next for the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery?
After the shutdown, what comes next for the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery?
Creating a greener, more equitable future at the site means understanding its complex history, its long-running public health impacts, and working in partnership with communities.
Ten from Penn elected 2021 AAAS Fellows
Ten from Penn elected 2021 AAAS Fellows
Ten scholars representing five schools across the University of Pennsylvania have been named to the 2021 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows, recognized for their “scientifically and socially distinguished achievements.”
Anti-racism and reproductive justice
Anti-racism and reproductive justice
PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts joined Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, in the 21st annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice. They addressed the intersectional nature of anti-racism and reproductive freedom.
Mentor support for the first-generation college experience
Mentor support for the first-generation college experience
Three decades apart, senior Rachel Swym and alumna Leanne Huebner found a common bond in their rural backgrounds and first-generation, highly aided college experience.
Briana Nichols focuses her work not on migrants, but on the people who stay
Briana Nichols focuses her work not on migrants, but on the people who stay
When Briana Nichols, a joint doctoral candidate in Penn GSE and anthropology, started working within communities of extensive migration, she says the thing they cared about the most was what it took to not migrate.
A novel theory on how conspiracy theories take shape
A novel theory on how conspiracy theories take shape
In a new book, Dolores Albarracín, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, and colleagues show that two factors—the conservative media and societal fear and anxiety—have driven recent widespread conspiracies, from Pizzagate to those around COVID-19 vaccines.
Justin McDaniel on life, death, religion, and his latest book
Justin McDaniel on life, death, religion, and his latest book
In his new book, “Wayward Distractions,” the School of Arts & Sciences’ Justin McDaniel compiles articles on art and material culture spanning his 20-plus years of scholarship.
In the News
The Wall Street Journal
Is the secret to happiness having a gratitude practice?
Martin E.P. Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the benefits of gratitude practices: “Humans are built to attend to the things that go badly in our lives. A lot of the exercises in positive psychology are ways of teaching people to savor and pay attention to what goes well.”
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NJ.com
How we tracked the pay of 24,000 cops
Aaron Chalfin of the School of Arts & Sciences said a new project documenting police pay in New Jersey contains “some pretty incredible data.”
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Angry that school is closed? Don’t blame teachers or unions
Courtney Boen of the School of Arts & Sciences and Carolyn Cannuscio of the Perelman School of Medicine wrote an opinion piece arguing that the blame for school closures should be placed on policymakers, not educators. “Only when we stem the tide of infections and flatten the curve will schools be able to function,” they wrote.
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NBC News
Fairer elections in Pa. could depend on 12 mathematicians
Philip Gressman of the School of Arts & Sciences and 11 other mathematicians are asking Pennsylvania to use their computer-generated map to establish new congressional districts in a bid to undo gerrymandering.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
What happened to those in poverty with the child tax credit expansion ended?
Pilar Gonalons-Pons of the School of Arts & Sciences said failing to make permanent the child tax credit expansion “means a moment of optimism in which deep injustices and hardships could have been changed may be over.”
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