Cave discovery holds clues to earliest Homo sapiens in Europe Excavations in Initial Upper Paleolithic Layer I at Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria. Four Homo sapiens bones were recovered from this layer, along with a rich stone tool assemblage, animal bones, bone tools, and pendants. (Pre-pandemic image: Tsenka Tsanova, MPI EVA Leipzig, License: CC-BY-SA 2.0) Cave discovery holds clues to earliest Homo sapiens in Europe Ancient DNA from 46,000-year-old bone fragments and a tooth reveals this group likely overlapped with Neanderthals for thousands of years.
Kelly Writers House forum amplifies ideas and voices on racial justice Penn's Kelly Writers House held a forum on racial justice featuring authors, students, faculty, and staff reading works written by themselves or others. Kelly Writers House forum amplifies ideas and voices on racial justice Kelly Writers House held a forum on racial justice featuring faculty, students, staff, and alumni reading written works, their own and those by others, that speak to these times.
Police killings and Black mental health Police killings and Black mental health Specialists from across the Penn community discuss the mental health impacts of Black people being subjected to videos of African Americans being killed by the police.
Exploring the links between jobs and health, reframed by COVID-19 COVID-19 reshaped Andi Johnson’s course on social determinants of health, inspiring a new focus on how the pandemic shaped employment and how people's jobs influenced their ability to stay safe. Exploring the links between jobs and health, reframed by COVID-19 More than half of America’s farm workers are immigrants, and most have been considered essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic. While this designation has ensured the continuity of their livelihoods, it has also increased their risk of becoming sick.
300-million-year-old fish resembles a sturgeon but took a different evolutionary path In a new report, paleontologists Lauren Sallan and Jack Stack re-examine the “enigmatic and strange” prehistoric fish Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri. (Image: Nobu Tamura) 300-million-year-old fish resembles a sturgeon but took a different evolutionary path Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri recasts the notion of what it means to be a “primitive” vertebrate, according to paleontologists Lauren Sallan and Jack Stack.
The 2020 Summer Reading List: Book recommendations from Penn faculty and staff The 2020 Summer Reading List: Book recommendations from Penn faculty and staff Book recommendations from Penn personalities to carry you through your summer.
Five takeaways from the DACA ruling Pre-pandemic image of a DACA rally, 2017. Five takeaways from the DACA ruling What does this decision mean for the nearly 700,000 DACA recipients in America? Political scientist Michael Jones Correa shares five key takeaways from the ruling
Final chapter in a pandemic’s shadow David B. Ruderman, the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History. (Image: Omnia) Final chapter in a pandemic’s shadow Historian David Ruderman was set to publish a new book and celebrate his retirement. Then the pandemic hit.
A virtual tour of architectural masterpieces Fisher Fine Arts Library, designed by renowned Philadelphia architect Frank Furness. (Image: Eric Sucar) A virtual tour of architectural masterpieces David Brownlee, Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Art in the School of Arts and Sciences, leads a virtual tour of some of Penn’s best-known historic buildings.
What do ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and a list of Facebook friends all have in common? What do ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and a list of Facebook friends all have in common? To an English scholar or avid reader, the Shakespeare Canon represents some of the greatest literary works of the English language. To a network scientist, Shakespeare’s 37 plays and the 884,421 words they contain also represent a massively complex communication network.