Diversity News

Students in a Marybeth Gasman class in GSE are working to save beleaguered Morris Brown College in Atlanta, and they’re writing a book about it along the way.

Colonoscopies reduce the risk of developing advanced colon cancer in average-risk adults, according to research led by Medicine’s Chyke Doubeni.

Chenoa Flippen, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, puts a lens to Hispanic migration both to and within the United States, in her intensive investigations of a Hispanic community in Durham, North Carolina.

To address the issue of black women’s hair from political, cultural, and business standpoints, Penn Professor Anthea Butler organized a daylong symposium, The Politics of Black Women’s Hair, which took place March 1, 2013 at Claudia Cohen Hall. The symposium drew more than 250 attendees, and an online audience of about 450 watched a live stream of the conference. It included panel discussions by academics, graduate students, and professionals in the business of black women’s hair care, a multi-million-dollar industry in the United States. Melissa V. Harris-Perry, host of a popular MSNBC news show and a professor of political science at Tulane University, moderated the morning panel of academics.

Penn Sociology Professor Tukufu Zuberi's documentary film "African Independence" has won him the Best Director award at its world premiere at the 2013 San Diego Black Film Festival.

Throughout her career at Penn, SEAS Professor Susan Davidson has worked to create programs providing services, guidance and mentorship designed to attract and retain female students at all levels of the school.

Ken Lum, director of the Undergraduate Fine Arts Program in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, is working on becoming even more engaged in the community through art.

William Fontaine, a philosophy scholar and an authority on black culture and improving race relations, was the University’s first African-American professor.

Salamishah Tillet, assistant professor of English and Africana studies and Penn alumna, is interviewed by Penn Current staff about choosing Penn and the focus of her work.

Mary Frances Berry has dedicated her life to championing the rights of people “nobody else would listen to.”