Student Archive

First- and second-year College students talk campus living and saying goodbye to virtual classes.

Help out a student for a semester with an online mentorship.

Daniel Morales-Armstrong, William Fontaine Fellow of Africana Studies and History, helms a course designed to lead students in a collaborative engagement with a local Philadelphian community.

Damian Pang, Penn LPS Online Certificate in Neuroscience graduate, may have discovered a new type of memory.

Hear from student researchers about their findings and plans for the future.

Penn Arts & Sciences students present research on urban water solutions, energy science and technology, and visual studies.

Go beyond the shorthand with OMNIA’s podcast series, In These Times. In season 2, Black Lives and the Call for Justice, we explore the nation’s complex history with race.

Leniqueca Welcome, a doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology, uses photography to explore the human experience.

Undergraduates reflect on their educational—and personal—experiences during the pandemic.

The graduation speakers were Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and a professor of history and Africana studies, and Justin Greenman, C’21, a double major in history and political science.

Penn Arts & Sciences events continued to showcase student and faculty work in virtual settings during the spring semester.

The Free Library of Philadelphia Board of Trustees has elected Folasade (Sade) Olanipekun-Lewis to serve as its new chair starting in June.

Melina Lawrence, C’21, contrasts two Philadelphia statues to illustrate how monuments can distort the past.

The Penn and Slavery Project launched an app that details the University’s historical ties to slavery.

Each year, Penn Arts & Sciences honors 20 Dean’s Scholars—students from the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Liberal & Professional Studies, and the Graduate Division selected for their exceptional academic performance and their sense of intellectual adventure.

Kok-Chor Tan, Professor of Philosophy; Eilidh Beaton, GR’20; and doctoral candidates Mike Gadomski and Dylan Manson examine whether it’s morally acceptable for the government to prioritize its own people’s interests and needs during a global pandemic.

Hajer Al-Faham, a doctoral candidate in political science, finds that disproportionate surveillance of American Muslims stifles academic research.

Marcus Wright, Undergraduate Program Manager and Academic Coordinator in the Department of Sociology and doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education, analyzes academic messaging to expose blind spots.

Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students present on myriad topics in TED Talks fashion.

To understand how ideas about racial difference took root in American history, Makiki Reuvers, a Ph.D. candidate in history, examines 17th-century encounters between British colonists and Native Americans.