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Penn School of Social Policy & Practice MOOC: ‘Top 10 Social Issues for First 100 Days’
As a new American president takes office, a massive open online learning course at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice aims to empower citizens to set priorities of their own for the new administration.
New Penn Research Examines Gun Use, Injury and Fear in Domestic Violence
A weapon, whether a body part such as hands, fists and feet or an external instrument like a gun, often accompanies intimate-partner violence. Susan B.
‘Monument Lab’ Public Art Project to Feature PennDesign Faculty and Alumna’s Work
The University of Pennsylvania’s David Hartt, Sharon Hayes and Shira Walinsky and alumna
Penn’s Glee Club Turns to Tech to Help Deliver Valentine’s Singing Telegrams
Managing the class schedules of 35 performers and arranging vocal quartets to deliver 50 singing telegrams during the two-day Valentine’s Day period, Feb. 13-14, is a big task.
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.
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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