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Maps, pandemics, and reckoning with history
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Maps, pandemics, and reckoning with history

Geospatial data has long been an important tool for scientists and scholars, but now, as society grapples with both coronavirus and a history of systemic racism, can maps help chart a path toward a brighter future?

Erica K. Brockmeier

‘Italian history on the table’
An old book is displays poultry butchering on one side; Italian text on the other

Attributed to Apicus, De re coquinaria is an Italian manuscript dating to the late fifteenth century. (Image: Kislak Center)

‘Italian history on the table’

Eva Del Soldato of the School of Arts & Sciences teaches Italian culture and language through the history of food.

Kristina Linnea García

Lessons from Hiroshima, 75 years later
Mushroom cloud rises over Hiroshima after the American atomic bombing in 1945

Aerial image of Hiroshima after the American atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945.

Lessons from Hiroshima, 75 years later

Penn Today asks scholars and experts to share their thoughts on the 75th anniversary of America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Kristen de Groot

Gouverneur Morris: A Founder, disabled American
Oil painting depicts two men in 18th century dress and powdered wigs at a desk, one sitting down, the other standing.

This 1783 oil painting by Charles Willson Peale depicts Gouverneur Morris (left) and fellow Founding Father Robert Morris. (Image: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Bequest of Richard Ashhurst.)

Gouverneur Morris: A Founder, disabled American

Best known for writing the “We the People” preamble to the Constitution, Gouverneur Morris also lived with painful disabilities. History doctoral candidate Jennifer Reiss looks at him through this underexplored lens.

Kristen de Groot

James Primosch continues to compose during COVID
James Primosch seated at his piano.

Professor of music James Primosch. (Image: Omnia)

James Primosch continues to compose during COVID

The professor of music, who won an award and released two new albums during the pandemic, discusses composition, text as music, and embracing electronic music in the absence of concert halls.

Susan Ahlborn

Is the threat of COVID vaccine hesitancy getting enough attention?
Bottle of liquid COVID-19 vaccination with a syringe lying against it in front of a row of vaccine bottles in the background.

Is the threat of COVID vaccine hesitancy getting enough attention?

The ultimate key to ending the coronavirus pandemic is developing an effective vaccine and administering it to the population. But a number of trends are converging in ways that may prevent the achievement of that population-wide herd immunity.

Hoag Levins

Brain scans of 9- to 11-year-olds offer clues about aggressive, antisocial behavior
A person standing along a glass wall in a building with a yelllow waffle ceiling.

Rebecca Waller, an assistant professor of psychology, studies antisocial behaviors and parent-child interactions.

Brain scans of 9- to 11-year-olds offer clues about aggressive, antisocial behavior

Two new papers, one about gray matter, the other about reward behavior, suggest that at the neural level not all conduct problems look the same.

Michele W. Berger