Penn Program on Race, Science, & SocietyThe National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Use of Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry as Population Descriptors in Genetic and Genomic Research has released its consensus report, Using Popula
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.
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News
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4/27
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2/23
PRSS Faculty Fellow Tukufu Zuberi was featured in PBS News Hour episode: Museum works to rep
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2/23
PRSS Visiting Fellow Dr. Christopher D. E. Willoughby's new book, Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S.
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2/14
PRSS postdoctoral fellow Hafeeza Anchrum is featured in WHYY's Movers & Maker's special episode, "The Story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital." The episode covers the history of Philadelphia hospitals