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Prof. Anne Berg of @PennHistory said images of violence at the #Capitol may result in fewer rallies and public events organized by extremists. However, she said, "I'm personally less worried about the next two weeks than I am about the next several years." https://nbcnews.to/2XCtwjA

Prof. Anne Berg of History said images of violence at the U.S. Capitol may result in fewer rallies and public events organized by extremists. However, she said, "I'm personally less worried about the next two weeks than I am about the next several years." Tags: University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania History Department

Cristina Bicchieri of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about modeling safe behavior to prevent the spread of COVID-19. To create a new norm, she said, you need to build this sense that other people are following the rules. https://nyti.ms/2W5XkV4 University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, Penn Philosophy, Penn Psychology, The Wharton School, Penn Alumni, Penn LPS, Penn LPS Online, Penn Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences

Simone White has been named the Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English. A scholar of 20th- and 21st-century Black studies and radical Black poetics, White is also a critically-acclaimed poet. University of Pennsylvania, Penn English Department

Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History, along with other historians, spoke with the New York Times about seeing the confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 insurrection. To see it flaunted right in front of your face, in the United States Capitol, the heart of the government, was simply outrageous, Berry said. University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania History Department

Guy Grossman of political science talks to USA Today on how current research shows that U.S. governors can limit COVID-19 spread through persuasion and mandates. Republicans who broke with prevailing GOP views had most impact. Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/37TlgAC University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences

Earth and Environmental Science’s Douglas Jerolmack and colleagues have found that the ancient Greek philosopher was onto something. University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania - Department of Earth & Environmental Science

Chloe Gong, C'21, is an English and international relations double-major, an East Asian languages and civilizations minor, and now, a New York best-selling author. Congrats to Chloe! https://nyti.ms/37SzHER University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, Penn English Department

Statement from Steven J. Fluharty, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, on the use of a Nazi salute and expression by a University of Pennsylvania anthropology professor and Penn Museum curator. https://bit.ly/3qiP690 "It was with great outrage and dismay that I learned of the use of a Nazi salute and expression by Robert Schuyler, a University of Pennsylvania anthropology professor and Penn Museum curator, in addressing a graduate student dur...ing a virtual conference last week of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On behalf of Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, I strongly condemn this abhorrent conduct. Such behavior has no place in our academic discourse, which aims to celebrate the open exchange of ideas in an environment that promotes civility, respect, and inclusion. Nazi symbols are antithetical to our values as an institution. The fact that this behavior comes during a period of deep social division in our nation, when too many others are invoking such symbols in their expressions of hate, makes this incident even more painful for our community. I reaffirm the School’s commitment to being a welcoming home for all. As has been reported, the School has canceled the professor’s scheduled courses for the spring semester, as I continue to review the situation to determine other appropriate courses of action." Updated statement: 1/13/2021

Penn Arts & Sciences presented a special pre-election virtual conversation, "Election 2020: What's at Stake?" featuring CBS News Chief Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes, C’95, and Rogers Smith, a constitutional scholar and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Watch the full event here: https://bit.ly/3jzAajm

As part of the Provost’s Lecture on Diversity, political science professor Daniel Gillion gave insight into how demonstrations affect elected officials, shape policy, increase engagement, and motivate voter turnout. Tags: University of Pennsylvania

Political scientist Michael Jones-Correa, historian Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, and demographer Emilio Parrado share their thoughts on the 2020 Election results and what both parties might take away from looking at how Latinos voted. https://bit.ly/3m7IEzq University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania History Department

Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy collided with the center of the Milky Way. This new discoverya collaboration between researchers at Penn, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Queen’s Universityis the first evidence of a shell structure in the Milky Way galaxy. Robyn Sanderson of Penn Physics & Astronomy, who was on the team, talks to Penn Today about this historical discovery. https://bit.ly/2J1y8Mf University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences

President Trump’s rhetoric and policy proposals on immigration were front and center in the 2016 presidential election. Michael Jones-Correa, President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science, wanted to find out how they played into Latino immigrants’ civic behavior. He and James McCann of Purdue University launched a series of ambitious surveys of immigrants’ attitudes before, during, and after Trump’s election. Their findings are laid out in a new book, Holding Fast:... Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants. In it, they describe how, despite the hostile rhetoric, Latino immigrants demonstrated far more civic resilience than withdrawal from political life. https://bit.ly/2HzVB6f Penn Alumni, Penn Spanish & Portuguese, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania History Department, Perry World House Wolf Humanities Center at Penn, Africana Studies at Penn,

The London Review of Books has a conversation with Emily Wilson, Professor of Classical Studies, about about three new translations of the "Oresteia". Listen as she talks about which texts may tell us about the state of democracy in fifth-century Athens; the difficulties of Aeschylus’ language; why "Hamilton" may be the best modern analogue to Ancient Greek drama; and how Wilson came to do her own translation of the "Odyssey". https://bit.ly/34mTgEH University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, Penn Alumni, Penn English Department, Kelly Writers House, Wolf Humanities Center at Penn

"I'm from the most Mormon place on earth, declared history Professor Jared Farmer at the start of the Dec. 7 Penn Lightbulb Cafe, "This Land is My/Our/Their Land." Farmer’s reflection on the land of his upbringing and the role of place in Latter-day Saint culture was part of a wide-ranging discussion on place-making and mythmaking with Bethany Wiggin, associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures and director of the Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities. https://bit.ly/2W5PkDw Watch the virtual Lightbulb Cafe lecture here: https://bit.ly/37YJtFu University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania History Department

As COVID-19 spread across the world, it became abundantly clear that different countries were responding differently to the virus. Cristina Bicchieri, who studies social norms and how they evolve, wanted to understand how a nation’s response had affected individual behaviors. https://bit.ly/35qaoJ6 University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences

When should we mind our business right now? Sukaina Hirji, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, is quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer on feeling justified in trying control other people’s behavior during the Covid-19 health crisis: "The problem is that we often don’t know the whole situation. Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Penn Philosophy

Brendan O'Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, talks about his journey from Ireland to Nigeria to Northern Ireland to England to the U.S., and what he learned along the way in our latest Origin Stories. Read our feature article on Professor O'Leary and his career, which has included aiding in the negotiating of peace in Northern Ireland to advising the Prime Minister of Kurdistan: http://bit.ly/2LEiq8b Origin Stories is a feature of OMNIA in which we highlight the j...ourneys of members of our faculty as they followed their paths from impressionable young students to world-class scholars working at the cutting edge of their fields. Tags: University of Pennsylvania

Shelley Berger, Daniel S. Ochs University Professor, and Nancy Bonini, Florence R.C. Murray Professor of Biology, along with Raffaella Nativio of Penn Medicine, are leading a team of researchers looking at the role of epigenetic factorswhen certain genes are turned on and offin Alzheimer’s Disease. We are trying a completely different approach to reveal the critical changes in brain cells, and our findings show epigenetic changes are driving disease, said Berger. Their study was published in Nature Genetics. University of Pennsylvania, Penn Biology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Dixon Li, a Ph.D. candidate in English, reveals that Black women, both as makers and as subjects, have been missing from the public monuments discourse. Li is also examining how representations of Black women may exist but remain hidden from the public eye. "Looking for Black female presence in the cultural tradition doesn't always mean looking for a Black female being depicted in sculpture. There are certain motifs, themes, and styles through which there's probably already a Black female presence and maybe we're just not as attuned to detecting it," says Li. Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Penn English Department

Angelina Eimannsberger, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature & Theory, answers the question "How Did Socialism Become a Dirty Word in Western Politics?" in the latest installment of Big Ideas For Strange Times, featuring short lectures on life’s bigger questions from Penn Arts & Sciences experts. Big Ideas for Strange Times is intended to feed our need to engage with ideas that transcend the immediate crisis of the pandemic. Watch more lectures from the series: https://bit.ly/3bO4UsL Tags: University of Pennsylvania

Camille Charles, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences, is one of several faculty contributors to a new book by Penn Press, Perspectives in Fair Housing. It looks at the successes and failures of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which was designed to protect against discrimination in the sale, rent, or financing of housing. Discrimination is occurring and has always occurred at every step in the process, says Charles. University of Pennsylvania Africana Studies at Penn

Dhanya Mahesh, C'21, & Lena Armstrong, C'23, contributed to this Penn Medicine research. University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences Penn Medicine Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

For their 30th reunion, alums Hyder Ahmad and Faisal S. Al Shoaibi wanted to make a gift that would impact research and learning for generations. That's why they created a Presidential Professorship. That's the Power of Penn Arts & Sciences. https://bit.ly/2HdrxOl University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences Penn Alumni #PowerofPenn