Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Globalization is no recent phenomenon. People, ideas, and objects have always been on the move, encountering and transforming one another.

There’s this idea in linguistics called sociolinguistic borrowing, in which one group of people adopts a feature of another group’s dialect. Usually it results from a positive association with the group that originally used the feature. But Betsy Sneller, a fifth-year Ph.D.

Timothy Powell’s ethnographic research has taken him to far reaches of the world to uncover what happens when the cultural stories that Native Americans told anthropologists hundreds of years ago are returned to indigenous communities today.

Amy Sadao, Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, announced today the selection of Daniéle Dennis (MFA ‘18) and Lauren Altman (MFA '18) as the newest Graduate Lecturers. Both began working on January 18 and will host a Coffee & Conversation this season.

For senior lecturer in photography Gabriel Martinez, receiving an invitation to take part in the Woodmere Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition, “

University of Pennsylvania senior Lucy Chai of Acton, Mass., has received a Churchill Scholarship from the Winston Churchill Foundation.  She is among 15 recipients of the honor, awarded annually to American students to fund a year of master’s study in science, mathematics and engineering

A woman is less likely to choose competition than a man, even when she performs equally well, unless competing with herself for a better outcome, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, George Mason University and the German Institute for Economic Research or DIW.

Diabetes accounts for 12 percent of deaths in the United States, a significantly higher percentage than previous research revealed, making it the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, according to findings from the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University published in

University of Pennsylvania sophomore Celeste Marcus is studying abroad in Israel this semester, but she’s still helping a local elementary school stay connected, from nearly 6,000 miles away.

In conjunction with the Arthur Ross Gallery’s latest exhibition Landscape / Soundscape, a digital student exhibition features 11 photographs and accompanying sound art pieces from University of Pennsylvania students.