School of Arts & Sciences

Penn Alum Hopes to Work Himself Out of a Job at CTC Ten Soccer Program in South Africa

If 2012 University of Pennsylvania grad Mathew Bernstein does his job right, he thinks his position could be eliminated.

Nobel Laureate in Economics Thomas Sargent to Speak at Penn Social Science and Policy Forum Jan. 28

PHILADELPHIA – Thomas Sargent, a 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, will lecture on “Continental Drift: The Forces Underlying the Euro Crisis” on Jan. 28 from 4:30- 6:00 p.m. in College Hall, Room 200.

Brookings Again Tops List in University of Pennsylvania’s Annual World Think Tank Rankings

PHILADELPHIA –- For the third consecutive time, the Brookings Institution has been ranked Think Tank of the Year in the University of Pennsylvania Global Go-To Think Tank Report.

Owl Monkeys Who ‘Stay True’ Reproduce More Than Those With Multiple Partners, Penn Study Finds

PHILADELPHIA — Breaking up is hard to do — and can be detrimental to one’s reproductive fitness, according to a new University of Pennsylvania study.

Penn Physicists Help Show Math Behind Growth of 'Coffee Rings'

PHILADELPHIA — Last year, a team of University of Pennsylvania physicists showed how to undo the “coffee-ring effect,” a commonplace occurrence when drops of liquid with suspended particles dry, leaving a ring-shaped stain at the drop’s edges.

Annenberg, SAS Professor Examines Effects of Digital Media on Social Movements in China

Guobin Yang has an unquenchable interest in the effect of digital media on society and social movements. China, Yang’s homeland, has been quick to pull the censorship trigger on media of all sorts that report events the government construes as unfavorable.

Fluharty Named Dean of Arts and Sciences at Penn

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Penn Sociologist Jason Schnittker Examines Incarceration and Psychiatric Disorders Link

PHILADELPHIA – Psychiatric disorders are prevalent among current and former inmates of correctional institutions, but what has been less clear is whether incarceration causes these disorders or whether inmates have these problems before they enter prison.

Grammy-Winning Penn Alumnus John Legend to Speak at 12th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture

WHO: John Legend, University of Pennsylvania alumnus and nine-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist

After Six Decades, Penn Archaeologists Carry on a Tradition of Research and Discovery in Turkey

In 1950, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology sent scholars to a site in central Turkey, about 50 miles southwest of Ankara.

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