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Penn’s Ping-Pong Club Leader Praises Diligence as Key to Success
Sho Hashizume, the co-ed team captain of the University of Pennsylvania’s Ping-Pong club, started playing table tennis at age 4. But for the first 10 years, he didn’t like it.
Penn Presents Annual Symposium on Social Change Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
The University of Pennsylvania will honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with film screenings, lectures, workshops, panel discussions and musical performances during its 22nd Annual Commemorative Symposium on Social Change, Jan. 15-Feb. 2.
University of Pennsylvania Art History Professor David Brownlee Wins Lifetime Achievement ‘Globy’
David Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania professor of the history of art, has received a lifetime achievement award from the Global Philadelphia Association for his contributions to the growth of the city.
Modern Language Association of America Awards Book Prizes to Two Penn Professors
The Modern Language Association of America has awarded prizes for scholarly work to two
Shakespeare and his co-authors, as told by Penn engineers
Shakespeare and his co-authors, as told by Penn engineers
Four hundred years after the death of dramatist William Shakespeare, enduring questions remain about whether the Bard of Avon had an uncredited co-writer on some of his world-famous plays. A team of Penn researchers has found an answer—in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, of all places.
Penn Sociologist Tackles Electronic Health Records, Cybersecurity and Passwords
More than 90 percent of acute care hospitals and more than 75 percent of office-based physicians use electronic health records, or digital versions of patient charts, typi
African American Arts Alliance: A Proud Penn Tradition
Established in 1991, the African American Arts Alliance (4A) is a student theater group that grew out of Penn’s Black Arts League and, like its parent group, situates its art in protest, activism, and solidarity against racial discrimination, and in celebration of Black culture.
Thriving program makes Penn a Quechua language hub
With nearly 8 million speakers throughout the Andes, Quechua is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas. In the world, that number rises, making it as prevalent as Swedish or Hebrew. Yet, it’s unrecognizable to most people, and even declared by UNESCO as an endangered language.
Penn Provost Vincent Price to Become Duke’s Next President
A Message to the Penn Community From President Amy Gutmann I write to share some bittersweet news: this morning Duke University is announcing that it has selected our Provost, Vince Price, to be its next president, starting July 1, 2017.
Penn Prof’s Research on Mass Incarceration Informs Documentary, Museum Exhibit
After studying the origins and politics of mass incarceration,
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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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 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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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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