Faculty Archive

Michael Platt, James S. Riepe University Professor, studies how biology fuels social behavior.

Dean Steven J. Fluharty discusses the vision for the School of Arts and Sciences.

Under the Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program, a team led by Richard L. Zettler, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), and Michael Danti, a researcher in NELC, has collaborated with partners in Iraq to restore cultural heritage sites, including Monastery of St. George in Mosul, a city in northern Iraq.

Rebecca Bushnell, School of Arts and Sciences Board of Advisors Emerita Professor of English, discusses the tangled threads to be found in writing about the natural world.

Faculty across Penn Arts & Sciences were awarded grants and funding for innovative research projects.

Students in the Vagelos Life Sciences and Management first-year proseminar get a deep-end introduction to how scientific discoveries can be brought to the market.

Penn Arts & Sciences faculty and graduate students were recognized for their distinguished teaching and extraordinary commitment to students in 2022.

Michael C. Horowitz, Richard Perry Professor of Political Science and director of the Perry World House, was tapped this spring by the U.S. Department of Defense to lead the newly created Emerging Capabilities Policy Office in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.

Penn Arts & Sciences faculty continued to distinguish themselves through their research and teaching, and their work has been recognized with notable honors and awards.

Last November, the University announced a new investment of $750 million in science, engineering, and medicine at Penn that includes major commitments in support of key priorities at the School of Arts & Sciences.

Penn Arts & Sciences programs are advancing knowledge about Asia and Asians.

The Department of Biology joins in campus-wide efforts to diversify those honored in portraits and rethink how to approach representation through art.

A new study details the relationship between particle structure and flow in disordered materials, insights that can be used to understand systems ranging from mudslides to biofilms.

In this season of In These Times, we talk to scholars, musicians and poets, and members of creative communities, to explore the link between making art and making meaning, and how creativity shines a light on the way out of adversity in tough times, past and present.

Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, discusses the state of democratic reform in Africa.

Journalist alums and political science faculty are joining to share their experience and research and address whether democracy in the U.S. is in crisis, at a crossroads, or reaching a new normal.

Dan Treglia, Associate Professor of Practice, identifies the number of children who have lost parents and caregivers to COVID-19 and how to support them.

Philip Gressman, Professor of Mathematics, wants to make elections fairer through the application of computational mathematics to redistricting maps.

Faculty present minute-long talks on topics such as “The First 60 Seconds of the Universe.”

In his new book, Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, highlights the online diaries shared by Wuhan residents early in the COVID-19 pandemic.