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School of Arts & Sciences
Penn History Professor Steven Hahn Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board
PHILADELPHIA – Steven Hahn of the University of Pennsylvania has been elected to the 20-member Pulitzer Prize Board. Hahn is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at Penn.
Penn Hosts Conference on Life and Work of Israeli Author Aharon Appelfeld Oct. 26-27
WHO: Aharon Appelfeld, author
Inaugural Penn Lightbulb Café to Focus on JFK’s Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Tapes
WHO: David Gibson, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
Penn's Kelly Writers House Announces Spring 2012 Fellows
PHILADELPHIA – Three acclaimed writers have been tapped to serve as Spring 2012 Fellows at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House.
Penn Team Wins Entrepreneurial Innovation Award
PHILADELPHIA — The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected a University of Pennsylvania team as a member of its inaugural class of NSF Innovation Corps awards. The I-Corps Awards recognize research that has the potential for commercial applications and connects scientists to entrepreneurial resources.
Penn Physicists’ New Manufacturing Technique Means Higher Quality Nanotube Devices
PHILADELPHIA -- Major advances in materials science and nanotechnology promise to revolutionize electronic devices with unprecedented strength and conductivity, but those promises can’t be fulfilled if the devices can’t be consistently manufactured.
Paul Hendrickson Takes on Ernest Hemingway, the Unconventional Way
Paul Hendrickson has adapted the conventions of literary biography in an unconventional way to explore the life of Ernest Hemingway in his new book, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-
Gift from Roy and Diana Vagelos to Create New Undergraduate Program in Energy Research
PHILADELPHIA –University of Pennsylvania trustee emeritus P.
In the News
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Civil discourse: Tips for navigating potentially divisive discussions around the holiday table
Research co-authored by Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences found that political discussions between members of opposing voting parties helped reduce polarization and negative views of the other side.
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Associated Press
Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old canals used to fish by predecessors of ancient Maya
Jeremy Sabloff of the School of Arts & Sciences and Penn Museum says that ancient fish-trapping canals show continuity in Maya culture.
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Chicago Sun-Times
UChicago students, Barrington native among 2024 Rhodes Scholars heading to University of Oxford
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn student awarded Rhodes Scholarship to continue cancer research at Oxford University
College of Arts and Sciences fourth-year Om Gandhi from Barrington, Illinois, has been awarded a 2025 Rhodes Scholarship to continue his cancer research at Oxford University.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Penn has preserved a pair of gloves said to belong to Shakespeare. Did they?
Alicia Meyer and Tessa Gadomski of Penn Libraries are researching whether a pair of centuries-old gloves belonged to Shakespeare, with remarks from Zachary Lesser of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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