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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Studying Digital Marketing in a Post-Privacy Era
As consumers, we’re being watched every minute of every day. Advertisers track us anonymously, share our personal data with marketers, and sell it to the highest bidder.
Penn’s Barbara Savage Named Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University
Barbara D. Savage of the University of Pennsylvania has been chosen as the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the 2018-19 academic year.
Two From Penn Awarded Soros Fellowships
Ivan Kuznetsov, an M.D./Ph.D.
Penn Libraries on Manuscript Team that Won a "Digging into Data" Challenge Grant
The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce that a team of humanities scholars and information scientists that includes Lynn Ransom, curator of programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, has been awarded a 2017
Field Center at Penn Identifies Risk Factors Making Homeless Youth Vulnerable to Sex Trafficking
The Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice & Research at the University of Pennsylvania joined forces with Covenant House, an agency dedicated to helping homeless youth, and Loyola University’s Modern Slavery Research Project to conduct a
Antoinette Zoumanigui and Selamawit Bekele of Penn to Educate Youth in Senegal
In the streets of Senegal, young boys beg for food and money, but two students from the University of Pennsylvania are working to address this issue through Project Y.V.E.T.A.,
Visualizing Future Doesn’t Increase Delayed Gratification, Penn Study Shows
Some people are more impulsive than others.
Three Penn Professors Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three University of Pennsylvania professors have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Beverly Davidson of the Perelman School of Medicine, Samuel Freeman of Law School and School of Arts & Sciences and Pamela Grossman, dean of the Graduate School of Education.
Penn Flutes Performs on Campus and in Community
The unlikely sound of flutes filled the rotunda of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology on a recent Friday, drawing visitors to the live concert by Penn students.
KIPP Scholar at Penn Advocates for Other Immigrant Students
As an immigrant, University of Pennsylvania junior Pamela Fuentes was assisted in her journey to become the first in her family to attend college. Now, she is helping others to access higher education.
In the News
Comcast’s Sports Complex plan for South Philly would make our city less livable
In an Op-Ed, Vukan R. Vuchic of the School of Engineering and Applied Science says that Philadelphia should make transit more accessible rather than striving to accommodate more cars.
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We don’t see what climate change is doing to us
In an Op-Ed, R. Jisung Park of the School of Social Policy & Practice says that public discourse around climate change overlooks the buildup of slow, subtle costs and their impact on human systems.
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Far fewer young Americans now want to study in China. Both countries are trying to fix that
Amy Gadsden of Penn Global says that American interest in studying in China is declining due to foreign businesses closing their offices there and Beijing’s draconian governing style.
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In death, three decades after his trial verdict, O.J. Simpson still reflects America’s racial divides
Camille Charles of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Black Americans have grown less likely to believe in a famous defendant’s innocence as a show of race solidarity.
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‘Slouch’ review: The panic over posture
In her new book, “Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America,” Beth Linker of the School of Arts & Sciences traces society’s posture obsession to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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