Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Seven professors from the Perelman School of Medicine have been elected members of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine.

Justin McDaniel, associate professor and chair of the religious studies department at the University of Pennsylvania, has won a $410,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to help fund the Digital Library of Northern Thai Manuscripts project.

Short fiction writer and novelist A. Naomi Jackson is living a life many aspiring writers dream of.

“Edgelands,” a program with Knut Åsdam, Mellon Artist in Residence at Penn, features his recent works, a new film and two new site-specific installations. Åsdam will introduce a public artwork at McHarg Plaza just outside of Meyerson Hall on Penn’s campus, 210 South 34th Street at 4 p.m. on Oct. 18. The art will be on display through Nov. 1.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Africana Studies and Center for Africana Studies are co-sponsoring an Oct. 17-18 conference on the future of Africana studies to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the department.

If you pair Shakespearean poetry and Italian Renaissance painting with 21st century video games and an international art fair, you get “Biennale: A Comic Opera,” a new multimedia production co-sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum.

Paul Goldin, professor of Chinese thought in the East Asian Languages and Civilization Department of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study

A group of scholars at the University of Pennsylvania is working to make the skill of reading manuscript text a hallmark of the Japanese studies program at Penn.

Fellowships from the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton will enable two University of Pennsylvania professors to pursue their research full time this year.

One group of University of Pennsylvania students is full of hot air. Anyone within earshot of Fisher-Bennett Hall on Monday evenings will hear the unmistakable sounds of Penn Pipes, the University’s first and only band of merry bagpipe enthusiasts.