Improving college access for Philadelphia’s Latinx community The 22 students in Emilio Parrado’s Academically Based Community Service course on Latinx in the United States will mentor high schoolers who are part of the Centro de Cultura Arte Trabajo y Educación (CCATE) college-readiness program. Here Parrado describes the next steps to the class, with CCATE’s Holly Link and Obed Arango in the background. Improving college access for Philadelphia’s Latinx community A collaboration between Penn and the nonprofit Centro de Cultura Arte Trabajo y Educación aims to enhance a thriving post-secondary success program, create mentoring opportunities, and more.
Lance Freeman appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Lance Freeman appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Interim President Wendell Pritchett and Interim Provost Beth Winkelstein announce the appointment of Lance Freeman as the University of Pennsylvania’s 29th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor.
Who’s at greatest risk to encounter the criminal legal system in the U.S.? Who’s at greatest risk to encounter the criminal legal system in the U.S.? New work from Penn, Princeton, and Washington University in St. Louis finds that for young people of color, contact with the system begins early and is incredibly widespread.
Need to break up with someone? Baboons have found a good way to do it, study finds NPR Need to break up with someone? Baboons have found a good way to do it, study finds Robert Seyfarth of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about how and why groups of primates “break up” and warned not to project that information onto human relationships. "You always find somebody who says, yeah, the baboons are showing us that you shouldn't have a despotic breakup and it's bad to just dump somebody and walk off," he said. "But I guess I'm not going to go into that territory." How a perfect storm of factors led to ‘the mother of all supply chain disruptions’ (Homepage image) Because the shipping process is so complex, Steve Viscelli says, most of the operators in the chain need to be operating at 24 hours a day for the November order from President Joe Biden to be maximally effective. How a perfect storm of factors led to ‘the mother of all supply chain disruptions’ Penn experts reflect on the global supply chain snags that have stressed systems during the fall and holiday season. Partnered, but still poor Partnered, but still poor Regina Baker, an assistant professor of sociology, challenges literature that touts marriage as a cure for poverty. ‘Black Families Matter’ Cary Coglianese (left), director of the Penn Program on Regulation, and PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts. ‘Black Families Matter’ In a lecture organized by the Penn Program on Regulation, PIK Professor Dorothy E. Roberts argued that the U.S. child welfare system is designed to police Black families, not to protect children, and must be abolished and replaced with a new vision of family support and child safety. Alexander Adames explores the ‘Costs of the American Dream’ Alexander Adames, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology. (Image: OMNIA) Alexander Adames explores the ‘Costs of the American Dream’ The Ph.D. candidate in sociology examines the predictors and consequences of social mobility for people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Penn Libraries acquires the personal papers of historian and activist Elizabeth Fee Two of Elizabeth Fee’s most influential books: “AIDS: The Burden of History” and “AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease.” (Image: Penn Libraries News) Penn Libraries acquires the personal papers of historian and activist Elizabeth Fee The papers of the pioneering historian and health advocate, who died in 2018, adds to the Libraries’ growing collection of materials charting the history of public health activism. A watershed created to power New York City The village of Gilboa in 1919. (Image: NYC Municipal Archives Digital Collections) A watershed created to power New York City Anna Lehr Mueser, a doctoral candidate in history and sociology of science, studies memory, loss, and technology in the New York City Watershed and the villages that were destroyed to construct it.
How a perfect storm of factors led to ‘the mother of all supply chain disruptions’ (Homepage image) Because the shipping process is so complex, Steve Viscelli says, most of the operators in the chain need to be operating at 24 hours a day for the November order from President Joe Biden to be maximally effective. How a perfect storm of factors led to ‘the mother of all supply chain disruptions’ Penn experts reflect on the global supply chain snags that have stressed systems during the fall and holiday season.
Partnered, but still poor Partnered, but still poor Regina Baker, an assistant professor of sociology, challenges literature that touts marriage as a cure for poverty.
‘Black Families Matter’ Cary Coglianese (left), director of the Penn Program on Regulation, and PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts. ‘Black Families Matter’ In a lecture organized by the Penn Program on Regulation, PIK Professor Dorothy E. Roberts argued that the U.S. child welfare system is designed to police Black families, not to protect children, and must be abolished and replaced with a new vision of family support and child safety.
Alexander Adames explores the ‘Costs of the American Dream’ Alexander Adames, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology. (Image: OMNIA) Alexander Adames explores the ‘Costs of the American Dream’ The Ph.D. candidate in sociology examines the predictors and consequences of social mobility for people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Penn Libraries acquires the personal papers of historian and activist Elizabeth Fee Two of Elizabeth Fee’s most influential books: “AIDS: The Burden of History” and “AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease.” (Image: Penn Libraries News) Penn Libraries acquires the personal papers of historian and activist Elizabeth Fee The papers of the pioneering historian and health advocate, who died in 2018, adds to the Libraries’ growing collection of materials charting the history of public health activism.
A watershed created to power New York City The village of Gilboa in 1919. (Image: NYC Municipal Archives Digital Collections) A watershed created to power New York City Anna Lehr Mueser, a doctoral candidate in history and sociology of science, studies memory, loss, and technology in the New York City Watershed and the villages that were destroyed to construct it.