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Penn Museum series highlights ‘Black History Untold: Revolution’

With “Black History Untold: Revolution,” the Penn Museum’s virtual programming offers a different perspective.

Glenda Goodman stands at a desk looking at an antique book on a stand.

Amateur music-making in the early republic

Glenda Goodman, an assistant professor of music, explores how hand-copying musical compositions and amateur performance shaped identity and ideas in the post-Revolutionary War period.

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Benjamin Shestakofsky finds interconnections between humans and machines

Drawing on field research, the assistant professor of sociology ,examines the specific real-world conditions under which software systems replace, complement, or create human labor.

More thoughts on the state of American democracy

In part two of this series, five Penn experts offer their insights on public health, election legitimacy, student loan debt, and more.

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Historian Mia Bay on ‘Traveling Black’

The professor of history’s new book explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.

$5 million Mellon grant for work on dispossessions in the Americas

The School of Arts & Sciences’ Tulia Falleti leads the interdisciplinary project.

2015 graduate Joyce Kim awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

As Penn’s 32nd Gates Scholar since the program started in 2001, Kim will pursue a Ph.D. in sociology of education at the University of Cambridge.

Angry mob on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with tear gas in the air.

Dissecting chaos: An interdisciplinary look at the attack on the U.S. Capitol

Faculty from five schools at the University took part in a virtual panel discussion to unpack the policies, messages, and conditions that led to the events of Jan. 6.

An ‘electronic nose’ to sniff out COVID-19

Through a newly funded grant, researchers across the University are developing a device that can rapidly detect COVID-19 based on the disease’s unique odor profile.

Bringing the humanities into climate education

Senior Tsemone Ogbemi is sharing the important role of the arts in comprehending climate through her work at the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and in an environmental conference she is presenting at this week.

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