Price Lab for Digital Humanities launches eight-episode podcast series The Price Lab for Digital Humanities created an eight-episode podcast series featuring interviews by director Stewart Varner (right) with digital experts. Clay Colmon (left) of Online Learning spoke about Afrofuturism in an episode edited by May graduate and intern Kelcey Gibbons (center). Price Lab for Digital Humanities launches eight-episode podcast series The Price Lab for Digital Humanities created an eight-episode podcast series featuring interviews by managing director Stewart Varner and digital experts. Four paid student interns worked as editors on episodes, making it possible to complete the series in time for a summer release.
Improving the quality of life in cities Improving the quality of life in cities The Gordon Fellowship program, currently in its second year, provides urban studies students with an opportunity to find summer internships that connect theory with practice.
Experiencing the pandemic from abroad Like many Penn students who are part of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business through the Wharton School and School of Arts & Sciences, rising junior Julia Mitchell opted to go abroad for a semester this past spring. Despite a change in plans due to the pandemic, Mitchell immersed herself in the culture and language of France. (Image: Courtesy Julia Mitchell) Experiencing the pandemic from abroad When rising junior Julia Mitchell learned in March that France was about to shut down, she decided to immerse herself further in the language rather than come home, quarantining with her homestay family and finishing courses remotely.
Maps, pandemics, and reckoning with history Forthcoming 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?
New funding supports milestone initiative to advance solar energy research New funding supports milestone initiative to advance solar energy research Penn’s Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology is a partner in a $40 million award from the Department of Energy that will accelerate fundamental research on solar technology.
‘Italian history on the table’ 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.
Lessons from Hiroshima, 75 years later 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.
Gouverneur Morris: A Founder, disabled American 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.
James Primosch continues to compose during COVID 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.
Is the threat of COVID vaccine hesitancy getting enough attention? 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.