Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Four hundred years after the death of dramatist William Shakespeare, enduring questions remain about whether the Bard of Avon had an uncredited co-writer on some of his world-famous plays. A team of Penn researchers has found an answer—in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, of all places.

More than 90 percent of acute care hospitals and more than 75 percent of office-based physicians use electronic health records, or digital versions of patient charts, typi

Established in 1991, the African American Arts Alliance (4A) is a student theater group that grew out of Penn’s Black Arts League and, like its parent group, situates its art in protest, activism, and solidarity against racial discrimination, and in celebration of Black culture.

With nearly 8 million speakers throughout the Andes, Quechua is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas. In the world, that number rises, making it as prevalent as Swedish or Hebrew. Yet, it’s unrecognizable to most people, and even declared by UNESCO as an endangered language.

Paul Saint-Amour, professor of English in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pen

After studying the origins and politics of mass incarceration,

Rachel Townzen embarked on a reporting project abroad this past summer that took her into the world of Syrian refugees living in Jordan. 

The Fels Policy Research Initiative in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has announced eight collaborative grant recipients.

The idea behind power poses, that if you stand in a “powerful” position, broad posture, hands on hips, shoulders high and pushed back, you will suddenly feel psychologically and physiologically stronger, is intuitively appealing, especially for people without much confidence.

The Fels Policy Research Initiative in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania has announced eight collaborative grant recipients.