Fall/Winter 2017
Fall/Winter 2017
In this issue of OMNIA, our cover story, “Water, Water Everywhere,” focuses on our most basic need and universal challenge: water. This includes access to safe drinking water, warming oceans, and strong infrastructure and storm protection.
In “Arts and Sciences in Action,” we cover the School's multi-pronged approach to issues within the global community. We also investigate the brain's natural GPS and how medieval manuscripts can be an educational tool on social media.
Features
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Experts discuss the societal and environmental challenges to our most precious resource.
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Paul Sniegowski, the newly appointed Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, riffs on research, teaching, and the liberal arts.
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Psychology Professor Russell Epstein studies the brain's innate ability to map our surroundings.
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New grant initiatives have Penn Arts and Sciences faculty and students engaging with each other and the rest of the world.
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Emily Steiner, Professor of English, uses new technology to illuminate age-old manuscripts.