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Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Online Poetry Magazine Jacket Has New Home at Penn, Revamped as Jacket2
PHILADELPHIA – One of the world’s earliest online poetry and poetics magazines, Jacket, which ceased publication last year, now has a new home at the University of Pennsylvania and a new name, Jacket2. When Jacket was first published in 1997, the Guardian hailed “Jacket” as “the prince of online poetry magazines.”
Penn Libraries to Launch Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies With $20 Million Gift
PHILADELPHIA – The Penn Libraries have received a major collection of 280 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, valued at more than $20 million, from long-time benefactors and Library Board members Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg.
Penn helps city police update how they report domestic violence incidents
The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) receives nearly 150,000 calls regarding incidents of domestic disturbance each year. For the past 30 years, the forms that police used to report these incidents were the same as those used for all other crimes—leaving out pertinent details that are unique to domestic violence cases.
Hear good music and support public health programs in Philadelphia
Cellist Amy Sue Barston and pianist Navah Perlman have performed in major concert venues around the world, and now they’re coming to Penn to do a fundraising concert for the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI).
Penn President Amy Gutmann to Receive Judge Lois Forer Child Advocacy Award
PHILADELPHIA -- Three University of Pennsylvania leaders will be recognized for their commitment to child advocacy this Wednesday, April 13. President Amy Gutmann will receive The Judge Lois G.
Marjorie Perloff to Visit Penn April 25-26 as 2011 Kelly Writers House Fellow
PHILADELPHIA – Marjorie Perloff, one of America’s foremost critics of modern and contemporary poetry, will visit the University of Pennsylvania April 25-26 as the third Kelly Writers House Fellow for the spring semester. Perloff will participate in two public events and informal teaching sessions with young writers and aspiring writers.
The zoot suit: an all-American fashion that changed history
With jacket arms that reached the fingertips and pants worn tight at the waist, bulging at the knees and choked at the ankles, it was nearly impossible to ignore a man wearing a zoot suit.
Assessing the balance of TV news from the Arab world
From the moment fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia, marking the beginning of the current Arab uprisings, the Al Jazeera television network has dominated news coverage of the region, reporting on the revolts from all angles, with correspondents in different locations and news crews in all the hot spots.
Penn visiting researcher offers insight into Royal Wedding
When all eyes turn to the United Kingdom on Friday, April 29, for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, those of us here at Penn can watch the ceremony with an informed commentary by one of our own scholars.
Penn students raise more than $20,000 for Japan relief
Penn students have acted with deliberate speed to raise money to help the people of Japan recover from last month’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
In the News
U.S. News & World Report
Has RSV vaccine hesitancy subsided?
A survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that more Americans believe in the effectiveness of vaccines developed to protect newborns and seniors against RSV.
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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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