While some Ivy League professors are clean-cut academics who wear suits with bowties and carry stacks of books from the library, others shatter that image.
Instead, some wear jeans and explore very dark, far-away places. One of those researchers studies the underworld of the sex trade -- not just in Philadelphia but also in New York City and in India.
Devesh Kapur of the School of Arts and Sciences writes about India’s lack of trust in its own institutions.
Ph.D. student Miranda Weinberg from the Graduate School of Education is interviewed about language and education in Nepal.
Harbir Singh of the Wharton School comments on the benefits of students traveling abroad.
Devesh Kapur of the School of Arts and Sciences comments on the 20th anniversary of Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India.
Francine Frankel, Devesh Kapur and Juliana Di Giustini of the School of Arts and Sciences are quoted in a feature about CASI.
PHILADELPHIA -– The Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania will hold a 20th Anniversary Symposium on “India: Two Decades of Transformation.”
Devesh Kapur of the School of Arts and Sciences shares his opinion about India’s economy and government.
A few years of French or Spanish may fulfill a foreign-language requirement to graduate from high school. But in today’s global environment, some career-minded young people want to learn critical international languages that aren’t widely taught in high school.
Enter the STARTALK program at the University of Pennsylvania.
The success stories of immigrants coming to America are legion.
William Morris of the famed William Morris talent agency (now WME) came to America from Germany. Newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer of Pulitzer Prize fame hailed from Hungary. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Austria.
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