Penn Program on Race, Science, & Society
Our Mission
The Program on Race, Science and Society (PRSS) is an initiative at the University of Pennsylvania devoted to transformative and interdisciplinary approaches to the role of race in scientific research and biotechnological innovations, aiming both to promote social justice and to dispel the myth that race is a natural division of human beings.
News
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7/13
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6/29
Penn Law Professor and PRSS director, Dorothy Roberts's book, Fatal Invention, was recently featured on NBC News.
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5/22
Current PRSS Postdoctoral Fellow Natalie Shibley and former PRSS Postdoctoral Fellow Garry Bertholf will begin teaching at Wesleyan University in the fall.
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4/1
PRSS Working Group Member Professor Susan Lindee has published an essay in Made by History, the history blog of the Washington Post.