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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Penn Trustees to Extend President Gutmann’s Contract
PHILADELPHIA -- The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania will extend the contract of President Amy Gutmann for five additional years beyond its current expiration date.
Geoffrey Canada, Six Others to Receive Honorary Degrees at Penn's 256th Commencement May 14
Weather Update Academic and Alumni Processions Canceled ONLY
Friars Senior Society Legacy at Penn
PHILADELPHIA — It’s official: the spring 2012 Friars Senior Society inductees have arrived and are being welcomed by their new Friars family. It has been part of life at the University of Pennsylvania for 111 years.
Penn APPC Looks at Influence of Maternal Sexual Communication on Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors
When mothers engage in frequent sexual discussions with their teenagers but fail to express clear disapproval of teenagers’ sexual involvement, their efforts are more likely to result in greater risky sexual involvement by their teen, according to a new study published in the Journal of Adolescent
Liver Fat Gets a Wake-Up Call That Maintains Blood Sugar Levels, According to Penn Study
A Penn research team, led by Mitchell Lazar, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, repor
Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy Launches Development of Child-Survival Tool Kit for Donors
Each year, before reaching age age 5, almost 8 million children die from preventable causes.
The Rotunda at Penn Listed on Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
PHILADELPHIA -- The Rotunda has been added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places by the Philadelphia Historical Commission. Collette Kinane, a graduate student in historical preservation, prepared the submission as part of PennDesign's 2011 Preservation Studio.
Penn Museum: Exchange of Prisoners With Metropolitan Museum of Art
When Penn Museum agreed to lend objects from its Egyptian collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their new exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art (April 10 through August 5, 2012), Penn Museum’s Egyptian section curator made one special request—for a temporary “exchange of prisoners.”
Penn Pilots More Sustainability Projects Through Another Round of Green Fund Grants
PHILADELPHIA – The Penn Green Campus Partnership has awarded five Green Fund grants ranging from a comprehensive recycling center within the
6 Exhibitions for PennDesign’s Terry Adkins
As a teenager growing up in the 1960s, Terry Adkins, a fine arts professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, was influenced by the major cultural, political and social events of the era -- and the music of Jimmy Hendrix.
In the News
Philadelphia Inquirer
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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The New York Times
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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Associated Press
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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The Wall Street Journal
‘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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Associated Press
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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