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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Making and Unmaking Race: Morton Collection of Human Crania in the Spotlight at Penn Museum
PHILADELPHIA — Is there such a thing in humans called race? That’s the question posed by the Penn Museum’s new exhibition, Year of Proof: Making and Unmaking Race, on view now through August 18, 2013, in the Museum’s Trescher Entrance foyer.
Shoemaker Green, Penn’s Newest Commons, Honors Trustee for Years of Service; Dedication Sept. 20
PHILADELPHIA – Shoemaker Green, the newest landscape project on the University of Pennsylvania campus, was created in honor of emeritus trustee Alvin Shoemaker.
Politics up close
As part of a special class offered only once every four years, a group of Penn students attended the National Republican and Democratic Conventions in August and earlier this month, and wrote news items about the gatherings for the Philadelphia Daily News.
What does a ‘free press’ in Iran really mean?
Freedom of the press is not a constitutional right usually associated with the Islamic Republic of Iran. But “freedom of expression” for publications and the press is codified in Chapter 3, Article 24 of the Iranian Constitution, with the caveat, “except when it is detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam or the rights of the public.”
Christopher Phillips Brings His Socrates Cafés and Constitution Cafés to University of Pennsylvania
What a difference a year makes.
Knowledge for free
Wharton Digital Press is offering readers a free e-book through Sept. 17.
Penn IUR Co-Director Eugenie Birch Helping to Shape World Agenda on Urban Issues
NAPLES, Italy -- Eugenie Birch, co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania, was re-elected co-chair of the
Center for the Advanced Study of India at Penn to Celebrate 20th Anniversary With Symposium
PHILADELPHIA -– The Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a 20th Anniversary Symposium on “India: Two Decades of Transformation.”
Penn to Mark Constitution Day
PHILADELPHIA – Events on the University of Pennsylvania campus on Sept. 17 and 19 will honor the nation’s constitution. Sept. 17 is Constitution Day.
John MacDonald Wins the David N. Kershaw Award
PHILADELPHIA -– John MacDonald of the University of Pennsylvania has won the Association of Public Policy and Management’s David N. Kershaw Award.
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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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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‘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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