Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. State Department are hosting a summit for leaders of Europe’s top domestic and foreign policy think tanks.

PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center on Family Violence and Philadelphia City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell have released a report assessing the city’s handing of domestic-violence ca

PHILADELPHIA — Toilets may not make for a glamorous subject, but they’re critical to global health. On Monday, Nov.

Penn owns an extensive collection of art—6,000 works collected over the past 250 years—that includes paintings, furniture, decorative arts, works on paper, sculpture, and photography. Some of it can be found inside buildings and in the open spaces around the main campus, the New Bolton Center, and the Morris Arboretum. But most of the art gets put on display only now and then. 

As a youngster, President Barack Obama was mocked not just for his uncommon name, but also his larger-than-average ears. “I have to say, with big ears and the name that I have, I wasn’t immune,” he said, kicking off an anti-bullying conference at the White House last year.

Dan Garofalo, Penn’s environmental sustainability coordinator and senior facilities planner, has been named to the first Civic Design Review Committee of the City of Philadelphia.

Applying to colleges is a hard enough task, but it was made even more difficult for Diana Gonimah when the political turmoil of Arab Spring in her home country, Egypt, briefly shut down communication with the outside world. Her high school closed for 20 days and she was barely able to call admissions officers in the U.S. to say, “Sorry, I can’t send my transcript for another month.”