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Researchers Discover Way to Make Surfaces Less Vulnerable to Disease-Causing Bacteria
Professor Dacheng Ren and his team of researchers are seeking ways to stop the spread of microbes, and they may have found a solution.
Did Foley get the name right? Depends on a lot more than local appeal, experts say
The Vegas Golden Knights will play their first game in the National Hockey League next season without the full moniker of the city in which they reside. 鈥淚 get why they did it,鈥 Patrick Walsh, assistant professor of sport management…
Professor Elizabeth Cohen Discusses Sanctuary Cities
Elizabeth Cohen, Associate Professor of Political Science, was quoted in a Politifact article 鈥淪anta Fe mayor defends sanctuary cities, says studies don’t show increase in crime.鈥
Professor Roy Gutterman Quoted in The Christian Science Monitor
鈥淚n some ways I don鈥檛 think [the incoming Trump administration] wants to interact with the institutional press, which is a huge problem,鈥 says Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at 黑料不打烊 in New York. 鈥淥ur independent press is an integral part of our democracy, it has been since the beginning of our country, and the public really needs to know what鈥檚 going on.鈥
How big companies like Target and Amazon are targeting customers at Penn
Amanda Nicholson, professor of retail practice and associate dean for undergraduate programs in the Whitman School, was quoted in the story “How big companies like Target and Amazon are targeting customers at Penn.”
Ceramist MacDonald Featured on ‘A Craftsman’s Legacy’
David MacDonald, an internationally renowned artist and professor emeritus of ceramics in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, is profiled on the American Public Television program “A Craftsman鈥檚 Legacy.” In the first episode of the season, master ceramist MacDonald…
Whitman School Establishes Institute for Entrepreneurial Society
The Martin J. Whitman School of Management is establishing the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society (IES), supported by a $1.75 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. The institute will produce high-quality research on the political economy of entrepreneurship, educate…
Music Historian鈥檚 Work Brings New Life to Restoration Shakespeare Plays
The foreboding words of the Three Witches in Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淢acbeth鈥 conjure up the general鈥檚 kingly aspirations and bloody demise. Their presence throughout the Bard鈥檚 tragedy is mostly known to modern audiences through spoken poetic verse. But what would the theatrical…
鈥楢 Moral Obligation to Stand with the People鈥
Ahmed Abdel Meguid was out with friends in Istanbul on July 15 when members of the Turkish military initiated a coup attempt. Abdel Meguid, an assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 Department of Religion, spent the summer…
Four Questions with Professor of Linguistics Jaklin Kornfilt
Linguistics Professor Jaklin Kornfilt, a member of the Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (LLL) faculty since 1983, specializes in syntactic theory, theoretically informed linguistic typology, and the syntax鈥攎orphology interface, with special emphasis on the syntax and morphology of Turkish and of…