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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Penn Live Arts celebrates 50 years with upcoming season
Penn Live Arts celebrates 50 years with upcoming season
For its 50th anniversary, Penn Live Arts is rolling out a season like none before it—complete with a John and Alice Coltrane festival, one-act plays in partnership with the Negro Ensemble Collective, and a new ListenHear composer series.
Drivers licensed at 18 crash more than younger drivers with driver training
Drivers licensed at 18 crash more than younger drivers with driver training
New drivers licensed before age 18 who are subject to mandatory driver education that includes behind-the-wheel training, in addition to Graduated Driver Licensing restrictions, are less likely to crash than drivers licensed at age 18 who are exempt from these requirements.
Moving away from ‘average,’ toward the individual
Moving away from ‘average,’ toward the individual
In a course from Annenberg’s David Lydon-Staley, seven graduate students conducted single-participant experiments. This approach, what’s known as an “n of 1,” may better capture the nuances of a diverse population than randomized control trials can.
Trailblazing Penn alumna Sadie T.M. Alexander gets posthumous honor
Trailblazing Penn alumna Sadie T.M. Alexander gets posthumous honor
The American Economic Association named Alexander, who earned economics and law degrees at Penn a century ago, a 2022 Distinguished Fellow.
‘The Cold War’s Long Shadow’
‘The Cold War’s Long Shadow’
As a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in India (CASI), Swagato Ganguly gave a talk on “The Cold War’s Long Shadow: Indian Foreign Policy and the Current State of Play of Indo-Pacific Geopolitics.”
Symposium highlights range and reach of Penn Global research
Symposium highlights range and reach of Penn Global research
The Penn Global Research and Engagement Grant is supporting 21 faculty-led projects that span research, capacity-building, and development efforts across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, India, China, and beyond.
Rounding the bases and finding home at the Kelly Writers House
Rounding the bases and finding home at the Kelly Writers House
Former Major League Baseball centerfielder Doug Glanville spoke with students about his life and career in the seminar created and taught by English Professor Al Filreis and during a public reading and conversation.
Philip Gressman thinks mathematics can make for fairer elections
Philip Gressman thinks mathematics can make for fairer elections
The professor of mathematics wants to make elections fairer through the application of computational mathematics to redistricting maps.
Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022
Six from Penn elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022
Faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences, Graduate School of Education, and Law School join more 260 honorees recognized for contributions to academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research.
Course shows students how Washington really works
Course shows students how Washington really works
Penn and George Mason University students traveled to Washington, D.C. every Friday this spring for a class that gives the inside scoop on policymaking inside the Beltway.
In the News
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The good and bad news about housing for LGBTQ Americans
Amy Hillier of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that more needs to be done to bring more queer and intersectional approaches to fair housing.
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London School of Economics and Political Science
Much more than meh: The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly Elections
Brendan O’Leary of the School of Arts & Sciences discuss the results of this year's Northern Ireland Assembly election.
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AP News
‘Fiery’ Psaki ending tenure as a top White House messenger
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says the departing press secretary has respected the media while answering questions in ways that provided real information.
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U.S. News
Week off social media boosts mental health: Study
Melissa Hunt of the School of Arts & Sciences says that staying off social media is not the answer to internet addiction; it’s learning how to use these sites in healthy ways.
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Governing
Pennsylvania’s crowded field of Republican gubernatorial candidates
Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the likelihood of Democrat Josh Shapiro winning the Pennsylvania governorship in a Republican-leaning year.
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