http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/researchatpenn/Society research highlights from Penn's graduate and professional schools.en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssMon, 05 Oct 2009 15:34:46 -0400minicola@pobox.upenn.edu (Steven Minicola)http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1671&socFri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1671&socFaculty from the schools of Arts and Sciences, Law and Medicine will confront the social, legal and ethical implications of increasingly rapid advances in neuroscience.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1670&socTue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1670&socThe system has emerged as a new tool for measuring how public agencies are serving their clients and how multiple agencies may be working with the same clients collaboratively or redundantly.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1669&socTue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1669&socPenn received more than $650,000 in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund 30 summer research experiences for high school teachers and high school and college students. This program is designed to speed the pace of scientific achievement, encourage the next generation of students and promote job creation and economic development.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1667&socWed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1667&socMore than 90 percent of Americans believe it is important the U.S. maintains its global leadership in science technology. Only 13 percent can define the word: molecule. —-ABC Newshttp://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1646&socThu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1646&soc"Wars are not clean or neat," writes Penn historian Thomas Childers, "and neither is their aftermath."http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1644&socWed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1644&socPUM II and Hapi-Men, two of the ancient Egyptian mummies on display at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, get their share of medical scrutiny.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1642&socTue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1642&socResearchers from the Graduate School of Education are partnering with a family of multi-generational Penn alumni to introduce laptop computers and a technology-based curriculum to students and teachers in a rural community school in Nicaragua.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1641&socMon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1641&socPsychologists have identified a cognitive shortcut they call "Unit Bias," which causes people to ignore vital, obvious information in their decision-making process and may play a role in the American population's 30 years of weight gain.http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1631&socFri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1631&socIn "The Origins of the Urban Crisis" and now "Sweet Land of Liberty," Penn historian Thomas Sugrue has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for civil rights in this country. The new book was published on the same day a black man was elected president; still, says Sugrue, "We've got a lot of overcoming to do."http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1626&socFri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400http://www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?1626&socWhen Steven Hahn visited the New York Historical Society's exhibit, Slavery in New York, he was surprised by how little visitors knew of New York's long involvement with slavery. "Most were simply stunned," he recounts in his new book, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom.