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School of Arts & Sciences
Penn Lightbulb Café: Impolite Conversations on Race, Religion and Politics
John L. Jackson, Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, Africana Studies and Anthropology kicks off this semester's Lightbulb Cafés on September 24 with “Practicing Impolite Conversations: Talking About Race, Religion, Politics, and Everything Else.”
Graphene Frontiers Awarded $745,000 NSF Grant for ‘Roll-to-Roll’ Graphene Production
Graphene Frontiers, a company developed through the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer, has been awarded a $744,600 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop roll-to-roll production of graphene, the “miracle material” at the heart of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Two From Penn Named Institute for Advanced Study Fellows
Fellowships from the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton will enable two University of Pennsylvania professors to pursue their research full time this year.
How Working Through College Paid Off for Penn Grad Janeé Franklin
By the time Janeé Franklin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May, she had already built an impressive resume. The 21-year-old Virginia Beach, Va., native credits Penn’s financial aid program with helping her to work her way through college in meaningful jobs directly related to her career interests.
Dr. Sheldon Hackney, 1933-2013
Statement from Penn President Amy Gutmann
Penn Student Set on Career Path to Lead a Charter School
Jessica King, 20, who calls herself “a child of public school,” is on a path to become the principal of a charter school. King was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania as an early-decision applicant.
Penn Pipes Revitalizes Scottish, Irish Traditional Music on Campus
One group of University of Pennsylvania students is full of hot air. Anyone within earshot of Fisher-Bennett Hall on Monday evenings will hear the unmistakable sounds of Penn Pipes, the University’s first and only band of merry bagpipe enthusiasts.
New Gift from Alumni Robert A. and Penny Grossman Fox Expands Fox Leadership Program at Penn
Thanks to a generous boost from its founders, the Fox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania will be able to prepare even more students for lives of leadership and service.
Penn Professor Camille Z. Charles Named Straus Institute Fellow
Camille Z. Charles, professor of sociology and Africana studies in the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, has been named as a 2013-14 Fellow by the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice at New York University.
Penn Team Begins Five-Year Sky-Mapping Mission as Part of Dark Energy Survey
For hundreds of nights during the next five years, the world’s most powerful digital camera will turn skyward, helping a team of physicists and astronomers from around the globe answer fundamental questions about our universe.
In the News
The Wall Street Journal
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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Salon.com
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 Inquirer
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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The New York Times
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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Philadelphia Inquirer
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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