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Making moves with Lucas Monroe
Lucas Monroe stands under the hoop at the Palestra holding a basketball at his side.

Image: Eric Sucar

Making moves with Lucas Monroe

The fourth-year guard discusses what he loves about basketball, the history of the game, his social justice work, and his plans for the future.
States with high COVID-19 death rates also saw high mortality from other causes
Illustration of COVID-19, made by drawing in red circular orbs with match-like objects sticking out around all of them.

Image: iStock/hatchakorn Srisook

States with high COVID-19 death rates also saw high mortality from other causes

Research from Penn, Boston University, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that between March 2020 and February 2021 non-COVID deaths accounted for some 20% of excess mortality.

Michele W. Berger

Does more money correlate with greater happiness?
Illustration of a person holding a brief case bounding up stacks of money. Dollar signs float all around and one appears in a large circular coin at the bottom right.

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Does more money correlate with greater happiness?

Reconciling previously contradictory results, researchers from Penn and Princeton find a steady association between larger incomes and greater happiness for most people but a rise and plateau for an unhappy minority.

Michele W. Berger

Tracing public opinion on global issues
Tom Etienne with students sitting outside.

Doctoral student Tom Etienne with students from his cohort.

(Image: Courtesy of Annenberg School for Communication)

Tracing public opinion on global issues

Tom Etienne, a joint doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Political Science, uses his skills in data collection to analyze political opinions.

From Annenberg School for Communication

The war in Ukraine: One year on
A graveyard is covered in Ukrainian flags and large displays of flowers.

A woman searches for the grave of her husband, a Ukrainian serviceman killed in the Bakhmut area, in the Alley of Glory part of the cemetery in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2023.

(Image: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

The war in Ukraine: One year on

A panel of experts took the stage at Perry World House to consider the prospects for peace and what constitutes a victory in an insightful discussion about the war and what the future holds for both Russia and Ukraine.

Kristen de Groot

New York Times journalist Brent Staples and Penn’s Tukufu Zuberi in conversation
Tukufu Zuberi (left) and Brent Staples

Tukufu Zuberi, the Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations in Penn’s departments of Sociology and Africana Studies, and New York Times journalist Brent Staples.

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New York Times journalist Brent Staples and Penn’s Tukufu Zuberi in conversation

At the inaugural W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture in Public Social Science, the two discussed Du Bois’ legacy and influence, Staples’ personal and professional journey, and the importance of speaking truth to power.

Michele W. Berger

Genomics reveals a complex human history in Africa
Two people from the Hadza group pose and smile outdoors

Study participants included individuals from the Hadza, a group who traditionally practiced hunting and gathering and speak a language that includes click sounds. They live in what is now Tanzania.

(Image: Tishkoff Laboratory)

Genomics reveals a complex human history in Africa

An international team of researchers led by Penn geneticists sequenced the genomes of 180 Indigenous Africans. The results shed light on the origin of modern humans, African population history, and local adaptation.

Katherine Unger Baillie

‘Politics Unequal: The State of Women in Elected Office’
Campaign signs dot a lawn outside a Tennessee polling location.

Campaign signs are posted outside a polling location on the first day of early voting July 15, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee.

(Image: AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise)

‘Politics Unequal: The State of Women in Elected Office’

A panel of experts and activists from across the ideological spectrum sat down in a virtual event last week to unpack how far women in politics have come, and the obstacles that remain.

Kristen de Groot

Discovering the lives and work of 19th-century female landscape painters
Aili Waller and Professor Michael Leja looking at a historic book while sitting at a wooden table in a historic room.

Waller has taken courses and completed an independent study with Michael Leja (right), history of art professor, and is also working with him as a researcher. 

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Discovering the lives and work of 19th-century female landscape painters

Third-year Aili Waller applies her experience with family genealogy research to her studies in art history, specifically 19th-century women who were landscape painters.
Ever more corporations are global. What are they responsible for?
Toyota dealership office with glass paneling

A Toyota dealership in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 29, 2020. Toyota is headquartered in Toyota City in Japan but does business in 170 countries.

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Ever more corporations are global. What are they responsible for?

Faculty from the Wharton School explore what the responsibilities of multinational corporations are to their home countries as business continues to globalize—and as ESG principles gain traction.