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Latest Update on Racist Messages Directed to Penn Students
Latest Update on Racist Messages Directed to Penn Students
Penn Psychologists Tap Big Data, Twitter to Analyze Accuracy of Stereotypes
What’s in a tweet? People draw conclusions about us, from our gender to education level, based on the words we use on social media. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, along with colleagues from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Melbourne, have now analyzed the accuracy of those inferences.
Penn MSW Students Named Council on Social Work Education Fellows
Three master’s students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice are among 40 recipients of the Council on Social Work Education Minority Fellowship Program Youth Master’s Student award.Alexandria Okeke, Pablo David Rodriguez and Kira White have been selected to join the third cohort of CSWE “Now is the Time” students.
Penn Receives Grant Supporting Tobacco-free Campus Initiatives
The University of Pennsylvania has received a $20,000 grant under the American Cancer Society and CVS Health Foundation’s Tobacco-Free Generation Campus Initiative. The award, timed to coincide with the Great American Smokeout on Nov. 17, recognizes the University’s ongoing efforts to create a tobacco-free campus culture.
Penn’s Inaugural Digital Humanities Fellows Study Art, Urban History and Media
For University of Pennsylvania senior Konhee Chang, Kandinsky’s “Circles in a Circle” painting sings. Or at least it will soon.
Research From Penn Prof Michael Leja Explores the Art of Elections
Michael Leja, a history of art professor and chair of the history of art graduate group at the University of Pennsylvania says today’s standard of hyper-mediatized presidential campaigns started with the United States presidential election of 1840, the first in which images
Penn Honors Seven Alumni Including Creative Spirit Awardee Hollywood’s Jonathan Avnet
The University of Pennsylvania will honor seven distinguished alumni at the 2016 Alumni Award of Merit Gala on Friday, Oct. 28.
Q&A: Egyptologist David Silverman on King Tut, Hieroglyphs and His Time at Penn
David Silverman has loved Egypt since he was a child visiting the famous New York City museums with his aunt and brother.
Penn’s Devesh Kapur Co-authors Book on Success of America’s ‘Other One-Percenters’
A new book examines the growth and success of the Indian-American community in the United States, both Indian-born and American-born. The Other One Percent: Indians in America is a collaborative book written by Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for Advanced Study of India and a professor of political science in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Penn Engineers’ Network Analysis Uncovers New Evidence of Collaboration in Shakespeare’s Plays
The question of whether William Shakespeare truly wrote every word in every scene of his plays has been circulating since the time of The Bard himself.
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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