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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Penn Libraries Announces “To the Ends of the Earth” and “Expanding Earth: Travel, Encounter, and Exchange” the 2017 Jay I. Kislak Conference and Exhibit
Globalization is no recent phenomenon. People, ideas, and objects have always been on the move, encountering and transforming one another.
Penn Linguists Investigate Language Borrowing in the Field and the Lab
There’s this idea in linguistics called sociolinguistic borrowing, in which one group of people adopts a feature of another group’s dialect. Usually it results from a positive association with the group that originally used the feature. But Betsy Sneller, a fifth-year Ph.D.
Penn’s Timothy Powell: Forging Partnerships to Promote Native Languages, Culture
Timothy Powell’s ethnographic research has taken him to far reaches of the world to uncover what happens when the cultural stories that Native Americans told anthropologists hundreds of years ago are returned to indigenous communities today.
ICA Announces Spring 2017 Graduate Lecturers
Amy Sadao, Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, announced today the selection of Daniéle Dennis (MFA ‘18) and Lauren Altman (MFA '18) as the newest Graduate Lecturers. Both began working on January 18 and will host a Coffee & Conversation this season.
Finding Unity Through Art
For senior lecturer in photography Gabriel Martinez, receiving an invitation to take part in the Woodmere Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition, “
Women will compete against self, not others, to improve performance
A woman is less likely to choose competition than a man, even when she performs equally well, unless competing with herself for a better outcome, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, George Mason University and the German Institute for Economic Research or DIW.
Penn Senior Lucy Chai Awarded Churchill Scholarship
University of Pennsylvania senior Lucy Chai of Acton, Mass., has received a Churchill Scholarship from the Winston Churchill Foundation. She is among 15 recipients of the honor, awarded annually to American students to fund a year of master’s study in science, mathematics and engineering
Diabetes accounts for more U.S. deaths than previously thought
Diabetes accounts for 12 percent of deaths in the United States, a significantly higher percentage than previous research revealed, making it the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, according to findings from the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University published in
Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery Landscape/Soundscape Exhibit Includes Digital Student Exhibition
In conjunction with the Arthur Ross Gallery’s latest exhibition Landscape / Soundscape, a digital student exhibition features 11 photographs and accompanying sound art pieces from University of Pennsylvania students.
From Halfway Around the World Penn Student’s Impact Felt at Mitchell Elementary
University of Pennsylvania sophomore Celeste Marcus is studying abroad in Israel this semester, but she’s still helping a local elementary school stay connected, from nearly 6,000 miles away.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
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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The New York Times
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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Associated Press
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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Associated Press
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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The Wall Street Journal
‘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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