After deciding that a career in medicine was not for her, Isabel Hu, C'23, leaned into her love for art and became a design major.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Video by Kyla Goodman
Philip Gressman, Professor of Mathematics, wants to make elections fairer through the application of computational mathematics to redistricting maps.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
By Katelyn Silva
Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students present on myriad topics in TED Talks fashion.
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Three historians weigh in on how we can understand our past.
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
By Susan Ahlborn
Illustrations by Vanessa Lovegrove
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, Ph.D. student in history, on the nation of Ukraine, how things got to this point, and what’s being overlooked in the discussion about the war.
Monday, February 28, 2022
By Alex Schein and Susan Ahlborn
Stephanie Gibson, a doctoral candidate in the history of art, explores monuments of trauma in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Black Atlantic.
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
By Karen Brooks
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.
Thursday, August 5, 2021
By Blake Cole
Ami Shah Brown, C’96, works on a DNA-based COVID vaccine, a technology she first witnessed as an undergraduate researcher.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
By Katelyn Silva
The career of Tulia Falleti, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, grew from her activism as a student in a newly democratic Argentina.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
By Lauren Rebecca Thacker
Glenn Singleton, C’86, started his career mere steps from Locust Walk as an admissions officer in College Hall, a position he describes as “exciting and nourishing.”
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
By Katelyn Silva
Zachary Lesser, Edward W. Kane Professor of English, used ghosts, holes, and scrapes to learn more about how Shakespeare’s work was seen in his own time.
Thursday, July 22, 2021
By Susan Ahlborn
Illustration by Maggie Chiang
Seo Yun (Stephanie) Hwang, C’23, spent her summer examining the impact of information and communication technology initiatives in developing countries.
Thursday, December 17, 2020
By Karen Brooks
Pedro Bernardinelli, then-doctoral candidate in physics and astronomy, and Gary Bernstein, Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, discover the largest comet on record.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
By Blake Cole
Penn Arts & Sciences’ Alumni Engagement program aims to bring the School’s alums together through programs and events that celebrate the liberal arts and offer a connection to one another, the campus, and its students.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
First- and second-year College students talk campus living and saying goodbye to virtual classes.
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Interviews and photos by Alex Schein
The 60-Second Lecture series returned to campus this fall and included 1.5 Minute Climate Lectures during Climate Week at Penn.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
During a two-week, in-person bootcamp at the Penn Museum, 11 undergrads learned basic archaeological skills in subjects from ceramics and sample-taking to archaeobotany.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
By Michele W. Berger
Photography by Eric Sucar, University Communications
