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Life is not a series of linear stages defined by age: Mauro F Guillen
Forbes India

Life is not a series of linear stages defined by age: Mauro F Guillen

In a Q&A, Mauro F. Guillén of the Wharton School discusses his latest book, “The Perennials,” which outlines the shaping of a post-generational society and its implications for businesses, governments, and society at large.

The advent of e-commerce
Man walking through a city carrying packages

During the holiday season, about three times as many parcels are shipped per day. For delivery workers, it’s a grueling marathon that goes on through mid-January.

(Image: Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash)

The advent of e-commerce

In a Q&A, sociologist Steve Viscelli of the School of Arts & Sciences talks transport, last-mile delivery, and the “incredible amounts of physical effort” required to get the holiday packages to America’s front doors.

Kristina García

Exploring anxiety and social change
Jason Schnittker teaches class.

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Exploring anxiety and social change

Sociology professor Jason Schnittker teaches the course Anxious Times: Social Change and Fear, based on a book he wrote. Through a data-sensitive approach, students study anxiety and mental health.
Locust walks: Making connections and bridging differences
Harun Kucuk shakes hands with people on Locust Walk

Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center, and Joshua Teplitsky, director of the Jewish Studies Program, started walking and talking as an act of campus diplomacy in the wake of the violence in Israel and Gaza.

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Locust walks: Making connections and bridging differences

Harun Küçük, faculty director of the Middle East Center, and Joshua Teplitsky, director of the Jewish Studies Program, started walking and talking as an act of campus diplomacy in the wake of the violence in Israel and Gaza.

Kristen de Groot

Warped front pages
Columbia Journalism Review

Warped front pages

In a co-written Op-Ed, PIK Professor Duncan Watts argues that journalistic claims to objectivity in political news are a convenient and self-serving fiction.

Violence and stigmatized heroes
Tyson Smith gestures at the head of a table full of students, in front of windows showing trees.

Tyson Smith (center) lectures during a recent session of the course that looks at the veteran experience that's often left out of the mainstream narrative.

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Violence and stigmatized heroes

The new SNF Paideia course taught by Tyson Smith looks at incarcerated veterans and their experiences to understand the intersection of the military, criminal justice, and health.

Kristen de Groot

Torn Apart: Terror
Ms. Magazine

Torn Apart: Terror

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts describes the horrors that the child welfare system inflicts by invading homes, targeting low-income families, and threatening to separate parents and children.

High levels of disadvantage affect ability amongst younger people
A crumbling house in an impoverished neighborhood.

Image: Matt Gush for Adobe Stock

High levels of disadvantage affect ability amongst younger people

A new study from Penn LDI finds that structural inequities produce significant disparities in community health, and that addressing concentrated disadvantage could meaningfully improve health outcomes.

From Penn LDI

Marking a monumental death
A person is shown holding a photo of Mahsa Amini, a woman who was killed in police custody in Iran in 2022.

A portrait of Mahsa Amini held during a rally Oct. 1, 2022 calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran’s morality police.

(Image: AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Marking a monumental death

In honor of the first anniversary of the killing of Mahsa (Jîna) Amini in Iran and the subsequent outpouring of protest, Penn will host a two-day conference on violence against women.

Kristen de Groot