Penn Program on Race, Science, & SocietyDorothy Roberts and Harriet Washington will organize a workshop on Race titled, "Quantifying Race" at the Brocher Foundation in Hermance, Switzerland on June 15-16, 2015.
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June 4, 2015
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June 3, 2015
On May 27, 2015, PRSS Director Dorothy Roberts and Postdoctoral Fellow Oliver Rollins participate in the Biosocial Scholarship Retreat at Princeton University.
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January 23, 2015
Dorothy Roberts has been selected to receive the 2015 Solomon Carter Fuller Award.
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November 3, 2014
Just Published: Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the 20th Century (Columbia University Press, 2014) by PRSS working group member Prof. Michael Yudell.
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November 3, 2014
Dorothy Roberts will give keynote address on race and health care reform at Annual Meeting for Physicians for a National Health Program.
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October 26, 2014
PRSS was awarded a grant from the University of Pennsylvania Provost's Excellence Through Diversity Fund for 2014-2015.
The Excellence through Diversity Fund provides resources for interdisciplinary projects on topics relating to equity, inclusion and diversity, with the goal of strengthening the Penn curriculum in these areas and recognizing excellence in these important fields of inquiry.
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October 20, 2014
Dorothy Roberts will give the keynote address, "Why Midwives Matter to Reproductive Justice," at the Midwives Alliance of North American (MANA) conference.
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October 14, 2014
Dorothy Roberts addressed issues of informed consent in her talk, “Medicaid Sterilization Informed Consent Rules” at the North American Forum on Family Planning Annual Meeting, Miami, October 13.
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October 12, 2014
Dorothy Roberts gave the Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture at The John Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR)
October 11, 2014 9:00am-1:00pm Turner Auditorium, The Johns Hopkins University
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September 8, 2014
PRSS director Dorothy Roberts joined leading scholars and policy activists in a day-long conference exploring the history and legacy of the War on Poverty.
The War on Poverty at 50: Its History and Legacy Conference September 19th, 9:00am-5:00pm
Fitts Auditorium, Golkin Hall (Penn Law), 3501 Sansom St.
**The conference was hosted by the Penn Social Science and Policy Forum, University of Pennsylvania