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There is no one-size-fits-all in architecture
Untapped Journal

There is no one-size-fits-all in architecture

In a Q&A, Anjan Chatterjee of the Perelman School of Medicine discusses his lab’s research into neuroarchitecture, which examines how people experience spaces and places on a neurological level.

Talking more abstractly helps startups raise funds
Forbes India

Talking more abstractly helps startups raise funds

In a Q&A, Jonah Berger of the Wharton School discusses his new book, “Magic Words,” which examines the hidden science behind language and how to use it effectively to change minds, engage audiences, and drive action.

PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger
Golfer Phil Mickelson holds a golf club standing on grass and looks into the distance, bending at the waist, in front of a LIV Golf sign and a rock wall.

Phil Mickelson at the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., in July 2022.

(Image: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

PGA Tour-LIV Golf merger

In the wake of the controversial golf deal, Benjamin L. Schmitt of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Kleinman Center discusses “sportswashing,” malign influence campaigns, and steps global democracies can take to prevent it all.

Kristen de Groot

The risky business of homeowners insurance
Homeowners inspect the ruined remains of their property after a fire. Rubble, a chimney, and a rusted truck are all that's left.

State Farm, the largest insurer in California, has stopped writing new home insurance policies in the state, citing “rapidly growing catastrophe exposure.”

(Image: iStock/VladTeodor)

The risky business of homeowners insurance

State Farm, the largest insurer in California, has stopped writing new home insurance policies there, citing “rapidly growing catastrophe exposure.” In a Q&A, Wharton’s Benjamin Keys discusses climate change and its risk to the real estate market.

Kristina García

Smoke safety: What to know and how to keep safe with poor air quality
A person crosses the Schuylkill River on a blue bike. The city skyline behind him is obscured with smoke haze.

A person cycles past the skyline in Philadelphia shrouded in haze, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Intense Canadian wildfires are blanketing the northeastern U.S. in a dystopian haze, turning the air acrid, the sky yellowish gray and prompting warnings for vulnerable populations to stay inside.

(Image: AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Smoke safety: What to know and how to keep safe with poor air quality

Olajumoke O. Fadugba of the Perelman School of Medicine addresses why smoke irritates the body, why people with allergies and asthma are particularly affected, and how to stay safe. Writer: Kristina García

Kristina García

‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’
Left side of image shows a book cover reading "Undoing Slavery" and the right side of the image shows the author, Kathleen Brown.

Kathleen Brown's new book sheds new light on the abolitionist movement.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Press/Kathleen Brown)

‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’

Historian Kathleen M. Brown’s new book reexamines the antislavery struggle and is the focus of the first episode of a new podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

Kristen de Groot

Harun Küçük on the Turkish elections
Supporters of Turkish President Erdogan wave Turkish flags in the street at night after his runoff win.

Supporters of the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrate outside AK Party offices in Istanbul, Turkey, on May 28, 2023. Turkey’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared victory in his country’s runoff election, extending his rule into a third decade.

(Image: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Harun Küçük on the Turkish elections

Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center and associate professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, shares some takeaways from the runoff elections and what five more years of Erdogan means for Turkey and the world.

Kristen de Groot

Crisis in Sudan: A Q&A with Ali Ali-Dinar
A view of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum shows brown buildings and dark grey smoke billowing against a blue sky.

Smoke rises from a building in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 19, 2023. The U.S. conducted its first organized evacuation of citizens and permanent residents from Sudan on April 29, two weeks into the conflict.

(Image: AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Crisis in Sudan: A Q&A with Ali Ali-Dinar

The Sudanese scholar and senior lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies offers some background that led to the recent violence and potential paths to peace.

Kristen de Groot

Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’
Sonal Khullar inspects the flyleaf from 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Sonal Khullar inspects the flyleaf of an illustrated copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ a favorite book from her childhood.

(Image: Dan Horan.)

Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’

The history of South Asian art professor discusses books, art, and love through her edited volume “Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia.”

Kristina García