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Penn PIK Professors Barbara Mellers and Philip Tetlock Win 2017 Schelling Awards
Two Penn Integrates Knowledge professors at the University of Pennsylvania, Barbara Mellers and
Brookings and Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania Launch Joint Visiting Fellows Program
The Brookings Institution and the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House announced today the establishment of a new joint visiting fellowship program bringing senior policy practitioners leaving United States government service into residence as visiting fellows at Brookings and Perry World House.
Using DNA as a Tool to Understand Human History
If you want to know the secrets of human ancestry and evolution, look no further than genetics, says Theodore Schurr, a Penn professor of anthropology.
Penn Research Reveals Where Expectant Parents Turn When Doctors Lack Answers on Prenatal Genetic Health
Humans dislike uncertainty. So what happens when that ambiguity comes from designated “experts” and relates to the genetic health of an unborn child?
The Stand at Standing Rock
Beginning in April 2016, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and representatives from hundreds of tribal nations gathered to resist the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would pass less than a mile from the Standing Rock Reservation.
Penn’s Field Center Names Anne Holton as Keynote Speaker for Child-welfare Conference
Anne Holton, who has devoted her career to serving as an advocate for families and children, will deliver the opening keynote address at the University of Pennsylvania Field Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research’s sixth biennial conference, “
Far From Home, Poet Fatemeh Shams Finds Sense of Belonging and a Voice at Penn
The cadence of her poem is almost lyrical as Fatemeh Shams, speaking in her native Persian, reads aloud to the audience at Kelly Writers House. But the tone is forceful as she nearly spits out the word repeated in each phrase: تبعيد, "exile."
A song for Sadie Alexander, a Penn alumna of great esteem
A song for Sadie Alexander, a Penn alumna of great esteem
Seventeen-year-old Sadie Tanner Mossell arrived at Penn in the fall of 1915 filled with strong-willed ambition, a determination to succeed, and the utmost confidence, in a world that told her she was ugly, ignorant, and inferior. She grew up surrounded by excellence, flowing across generations, and knew that prevalent notions of black inferiority were false and uncivilized.
Tired Teens More Likely to Commit Crimes as Adults
Teenagers who self-report feeling drowsy mid-afternoon also tend to exhibit more anti-social behavior such as lying, cheating, stealing and fighting.
Penn Announces 2017 Thouron Award Winners
Five University of Pennsylvania seniors and one alumna have received 2017 Thouron Awards to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
In the News
The New York Times
Europe has a leadership vacuum. How will it handle Trump?
Amy Gutmann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Germany is front and center in the economic problems currently afflicting Europe.
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The Hill
Trust in court system at record low: Gallup
An October survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that the public’s trust in the U.S. Supreme Court has dropped to a record low.
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Los Angeles Times
Trump offers murky worldview ahead of second term, mixing dire warnings with rosy promises
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Donald Trump is far more hyperbolic on average than traditional presidential candidates, who still routinely claim that they will do something alone that can’t be done without Congress.
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The New York Times
An epidemic of vicious school brawls, fueled by student cellphones
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that many schools don’t have a playbook for addressing student violence or helping pupils engage more positively online, in part because few researchers are studying the issue.
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The New York Times
N.Y.C. grocery prices are high. Could city-owned stores help?
Andrew Lamas of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the logistics of running grocery stores are complicated and that New York City should examine different models like cooperatives.
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