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Congratulations to Our 2022 Graduates

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

By Susan Ahlborn

OMNIA Podcast: In These Times, Season 4

Student

Penn Arts & Sciences Pathways: Isabel Hu, C'23 (VIDEO)

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

Faculty

Mathematics = Fairer Elections

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

Student

2022 Penn Grad Talks (Video)

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

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Faculty

The Future of History

Three historians weigh in on how we can understand our past.

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

By Susan Ahlborn

Illustrations by Vanessa Lovegrove

Faculty

OMNIA Q&A: The War in Ukraine

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

Student

Forgetting Doesn’t Heal

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

Student

Community Builders

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

Alumni

Coming Full Circle

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

Faculty

Política, Activismo, y Academia

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

Alumni

Courageous Conversation

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

Faculty

CSI: Shakespeare

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

Student

Digital Potential

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

Faculty

Connecting the Celestial Dots

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

Alumni

Highlighting Penn Arts & Sciences Alums

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

Student

OMNIA Photo Essay: Back to Campus (For the First Time)

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

60-Second Lectures: Fall 2021 Roundup (Video)

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

Fieldwork Experience, No Travel Required

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

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