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March 31, 2022
How Storytelling Can Motivate Us to Help OthersThe mission of the Annenberg School’s Communication Neuroscience Lab has long been to figure out what kind of messages best push us to engage in healthier habits. As COVID-19 began its sweeping disruption of daily life in March 2020 and behaviors like masking, hand washing, and social distancing became life-or-death for many, members of the lab immediately felt called to action. A new study finds that personal stories – instead of cold facts – make people want to help keep others safe.
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March 31, 2022
Understanding migration and the artsIn the latest episode of Penn Today’s ‘Understand This …’ podcast series, Obed Arango of the School of Social Policy & Practice, alongside Wolf Humanities Graduate Fellow Shelley Zhang, discuss migration, the arts, and identity.
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March 30, 2022
From the page to the stageIn collaboration with author Amitav Ghosh, musician Ali Sethi, and Penn’s Brooke O’Harra, 14 students brought to life a parable Ghosh wrote about the world’s largest mangrove forest, human greed, and the environment.
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March 25, 2022
A view both ancient and modernPenn Museum Director Christopher Woods speaks about his background and his first year leading the institution.
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March 24, 2022
Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka on art and cultureWole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke as the inaugural guest for the Distinguished Lecture in African Studies.