Faculty Archive

More than 150 alums gathered for Ben Talks in NYC.

Discover the stories behind the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Religious Studies’ office items—in his own words.

Marci Hamilton, Professor of Practice in Political Science and Fox Family Pavilion Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion, discusses how the newly formed Global Statute of Limitations Reform Task Force will work to bring justice to victims of child sexual abuse.

Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, on the radicalism and relevance of the T.S. Eliot poem.

Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, and Peter Struck, Professor of Classical Studies, discuss their new book series, A Cultural History of Ideas.

A concert with the theme Re-Imagining was the culmination of two music classes taught by Tyshawn Sorey, Presidential Assistant Professor of Music.

Physicists are studying how living matter works, and find that it breaks the standard rules and produces fascinating new phenomena.

Nikhil Anand, Associate Professor of Anthropology, leads two interdisciplinary research initiatives that provide insight on worldwide climate disasters and water crises.

The start of the academic year always brings new energy to campus, and this year the energy has been exceptional.

Political Science faculty analyze the immediate results of the 2022 election.

In an ambitious new project, Simcha Gross, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, studies hundreds of ancient incantation bowls in the hopes of eventually building a worldwide database.

A fateful trip to Eastern Europe in 1989 inspired Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies, to pursue a career studying the impact of the Cold War and its aftermath on the lives of ordinary people.

Penn Arts & Sciences has awarded grants for six projects through the Making a Difference in Global Communities and the Klein Family Social Justice initiatives.

The outstanding work of the Penn Arts & Sciences faculty continues to be recognized with notable honors and awards.

The Asian American Studies Program will welcome three new core faculty members next year, expanding the range of topics and classes the program offers.

Four programs in the University’s academic community are celebrating anniversaries.

Andrew M. Rappe, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, and postdoctoral researcher Arvin Kakekhani lend their expertise to a study on solar cell efficiency.

Wei Guo, Class of 1965 Term Professor of Biology, identifies a new tool to help predict how a patient might respond to checkpoint inhibitor drugs.

Kristen Brown, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology, collects coral samples from different locations on a reef to see how they fared in acidic conditions.

Elly R. Truitt, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science, discusses the history of robots and automata in medieval Latin culture, the impulses that drove their creation, and shared characteristics with modern-day robots.