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Becoming a mother reduces a woman’s earning potential by up to 10 percent per child
Florian stands in front of tree with autumn leaves

Florian explains that though maternity leave doesn't last long, it has a long-lasting and unfair impact on mothers' careers.

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    • Becoming a mother reduces a woman’s earning potential by up to 10 percent per child

    In a Q&A, Sandra Florian, a postdoctoral fellow in sociology and the Population Studies Center, discusses motherhood’s short- and long-term effects on a woman’s career.

    Jacob Williamson-Rea

    ‘Near/Miss’ Penn professor Charles Bernstein publishes new poetry collection
    Charles Bernstein at his desk in his office with a colorful painting by his wife on the wall behind him

    Penn English Professor Charles Bernstein has just published his 15th book of poetry, "Near/Miss." 

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    • ‘Near/Miss’ Penn professor Charles Bernstein publishes new poetry collection

    The poetry in Charles Bernstein’s just-published collection, “Near/Miss,” defies convention in language and form. This is his 15th book of poetry.

    Louisa Shepard

    Behind the scenes of election night projections
    John Lapinski surrounded by Penn undergraduate workers with NBC's Elections Unit Penn Political Science Professor John Lapinski, third from right, poses with Penn undergraduate students working at the NBC Elections Unit in November 2016. (Photo: Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies)
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    • Behind the scenes of election night projections

    John Lapinski, director of elections at NBC and the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Political Science at Penn, discusses projecting elections and what to expect from the midterms.
    Getting science right in the fake news era
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    • Getting science right in the fake news era

    Over his career as a science journalist, Carl Zimmer has seen legitimate science reporting denied and illegitimate science news taken as fact. In advance of a talk at Penn, Zimmer discusses the problem of misinformation and offers tips for avoiding being fooled by bogus science stories.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Political intimidation, at-risk media, and the future of journalism
    Barbie Zelizer, director of the Center for Media at Risk

    Barbie Zelizer, the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, is also the director of the Center for Media at Risk.

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    • Political intimidation, at-risk media, and the future of journalism

    In the wake of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death, Barbie Zelizer, director of the Center for Media at Risk, discusses how journalists and other digital media practitioners can better prepare for working in today’s climate and why, for that to happen, the media culture needs to shift.

    Michele W. Berger

    Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center
    Penn professor Karen Redrobe

    Karen Redrobe is the new director of Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center. (Photo by Lua Beckman) 

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    • Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center

    In her new role, Redrobe will oversee the Center's public programs, and the research work of 29 faculty, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows, and oversee Penn Global collaboration with the Perry World House.

    Louisa Shepard

    Q&A with Tulia Falleti
    Tulia Falleti

    Tulia Falleti, director of Penn’s Latin American and Latino Studies program, the Class of 1965 Term Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, and a Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. (Photo: Eric Sucar)

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    • Q&A with Tulia Falleti

    The political science professor explains the events of the “other” 9/11, the coup of 1973 that displaced the democratically-elected president of Chile and instated a military dictator.
    Q&A with Marci Hamilton
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    • Q&A with Marci Hamilton

    A national expert on child sex abuse, Hamilton comments on the vast Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis.

    Lauren Hertzler