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School of Arts & Sciences
Penn Flutes Performs on Campus and in Community
The unlikely sound of flutes filled the rotunda of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology on a recent Friday, drawing visitors to the live concert by Penn students.
University of Pennsylvania Student Wins Truman Scholarship
University of Pennsylvania student Sarah Cornelius, a junior in the School of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship.
KIPP Scholar at Penn Advocates for Other Immigrant Students
As an immigrant, University of Pennsylvania junior Pamela Fuentes was assisted in her journey to become the first in her family to attend college. Now, she is helping others to access higher education.
What Makes Creative People Creative?
In a small conference room in the basement of a hotel, four comedians, two psychologists, a cartoonist and a seven-time New Yorker caption contest winner sit around a U-shaped table.
Four Penn Professors Honored With 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships
University of Pennsylvania professors Robert Aronowitz, Rita Copeland, Daniel J. Mindiola and Daniel K.
Penn Psychologists Find Photos, Videos Result in Similar Understanding of Actions
Viewing an action — for example, biting or kicking or punching — in a photo versus a video doesn’t change the understanding of what’s taking place, according to new research from University of Pennsylvania psychologists Russell Epstein,
Penn Researcher Awarded $2.5 Million to Study Well-being Effects of the Arts and Humanities
What role do the arts and humanities play in human flourishing?
Penn Researchers Investigate How Songbirds Teach Themselves Songs
Music can be a powerful form of expression. It’s especially important for songbirds such as zebra finches, which learn the songs of their fathers in order to court mates.
Two University of Pennsylvania Students Win Goldwater Scholarship
University of Pennsylvania students Michael Tran Duong and Tiberiu Mihaila have been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship.
Climate Change’s Weather Swings Bring Trials for Plants, Penn Experts Say
It was a lovely day on the University of Pennsylvania campus: sunny and 70 degrees. Students sunbathed and tossed Frisbees on College Green, near cherry trees on the verge of blooming. The only incongruity? It was still winter.
In the News
Suddenly there aren’t enough babies. The whole world is alarmed
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of the School of Arts & Sciences estimates that global fertility last year fell to below global replacement for the first time in human history.
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The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the warming of the oceans is helping to destabilize ice shelves and fuel more powerful hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
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Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music
Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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Jerome Rothenberg, who expanded the sphere of poetry, dies at 92
Charles Bernstein of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the late Jerome Rothenberg was the ultimate hyphenated person: a poet-critic-anthologist-translator.
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A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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