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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
New Penn Integrates Knowledge Website Highlights Program’s Broad Impact
Since 2005 the University of Pennsylvania‘s Penn Integrates Knowledge program has brought to campus exceptional faculty members whose research and teaching exemplify the integration of knowledge across disciplines.
Penn’s Wharton School Houses Sizeable Art Collection
The University of Pennsylvania is home to art galleries and museums, and there’s a plethora of art on display in campus buildings, but did you know that Wharton, Penn’s world-class business school, has a notable art collection, too?
Learning Lessons by Integrating Sustainability in the Classroom at Penn
As an environmental studies major at the University of Pennsylvania, Kinsey Miller already knew about many sustainability issues. But, after spending the summer as a researcher in the Penn Green Campus Partnership’s Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum program, her interests have expanded further.
Penn Lightbulb Café Presents ‘Freedom to Innovate: The Global Spread of Fair Use’
WHO: Peter Decherney Professor of English and Cinema Studies
Penn Blends Art and Science With Network Visualization Program
By Madeleine Stone @themadstoneScience and art are often perceived to be at odds with each other, two fundamentally different ways of understanding the world. But University of Pennsylvania researcher Danielle Bassett believes science and art can inform each other in very tangible ways.
Junior Jesse Yoder Is Helping to Map a Sustainable Course at Penn
This summer, University of Pennsylvania junior Jesse Yoder remained on campus, not to take classes but to help prepare classes.
Penn Student Assists in Developing an Economic Growth Plan in Guatemala
In a very poor but picturesque region of Guatemala, Seth Amos spent the summer working to help a town to develop an economic growth strategy.
Penn Prof Al Filreis to Host N.Y. Public Library Inaugural ‘ModPo’ MOOC Meet-up
In the New York City area, online students in a University of Pennsylvania massive open online course on modern poetry are getting the chance to meet offline. The venue is the New York Public Library where learners in Penn English professor Al Filreis’ “Modern and Contemporary American Poetry” MOOC can gather for weekly in-person discussions.
Penn President Amy Gutmann to Welcome Incoming Freshmen
WHO: Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, and incoming freshmen WHAT: Move-in for Penn's Class of 2018 WHEN: Aug. 22, 2014, 11am
In the News
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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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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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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‘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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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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