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A Solution for Cleaner Cars

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

By Laura Dattaro

Images by Brooke Sietinsons

Spring/Summer 2023 OMNIA

Faculty

60-Second Lectures | Fall 2023 Roundup (Video)

This fall’s 60-Second Lectures included a special Constitution Day edition and 1.5 Minute Climate Lectures during Climate Week at Penn.

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Faculty

Inequalities Deepen When Social Progress Tied to Private Interests

As a kid, Brent Cebul was a sports fan in suburban Cleveland, captivated by the city’s construction of the first major sports stadium in almost 60 years. He even assembled his own model of Jacobs Field, the home of Cleveland’s baseball team beginning in 1994.

Friday, September 22, 2023

By Matt Gelb

Student

Penn Arts & Sciences Pathways: Brandon Anaya, C'24 (Video)

Anaya came to Penn with an interest in studying medicine, but his experiences in the College brought out a passion for English and cinema studies.

Friday, September 22, 2023

Video by Ta'Liyah Thomas

Student

The First Week for First-Years (Photos)  

College students from the Class of 2027 moved in and got to know Penn Arts & Sciences through the Exploration Expo, where departments, majors, and programs were on display.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

By Michele W. Berger

Photos by Brooke Sietinsons and Ta’Liyah Thomas

Faculty

OMNIA Podcast: We Haven't Passed the Climate Tipping Point...Yet (Audio)

Climate scientist Michael Mann talks with OMNIA about this summer's unprecedented weather events and why there's still time to take action.

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Produced and edited by Alex Schein

Faculty

Countering the Assumption of the ‘Intact Mind’

Amy Lutz, a senior lecturer in History and Sociology of Science, discusses her new book about autism, intellectual disability, and her beliefs about the need to provide services for the most severely impaired.

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

By Michele W. Berger

Student

Searching for resilience in our reefs

Some corals survive hotter temperatures better than others. In the lab of biologist Katie Barott, sophomores Alex Piven and Angela Ye have spent the summer trying to understand why.

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

By Matt Gelb

Photos by Brooke Sietinsons

Faculty

The Poetry Industrial Complex

Lecturer in Critical Writing Amy Paeth’s new book uses the history of the U.S. Poet Laureate as a window into how the arts, government, industry, and private donors interact and shape culture.

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

By Susan Ahlborn

Student

Writing for Wikipedia

Students in classes taught by Heather Sharkey, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations professor, fill in gaps in the online encyclopedia, learning about their subjects and the nuts and bolts of research, writing, and copyright.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

By Susan Ahlborn

Student

Conservation, Justice, and Gender

Through her summer internship, Mia McElhatton, C’26, explores how efforts to save the planet may disproportionately burden women.

Monday, August 7, 2023

By Katelyn Silva

Images by Ta’Liyah Thomas

Faculty

Words of Encouragement

The Global Learners Program, taught by LPS English Language Programs instructors, offered more than 300 people in Ukraine English skills useful on the job hunt—and provided some normalcy and hope.  

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

By Michele W. Berger

Student

Silver Screen Time

Faryn Pearl, C’14, discusses co-directing the DreamWorks Animation film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, and how internships she obtained through Penn Arts & Sciences shaped her career path.

Monday, July 24, 2023

By Karen Brooks

Student

Discovering Her Dreams

The College of Liberal & Professional Studies and a Bread Upon the Waters scholarship jump-started Dean’s Scholar Gabrielle Solair’s goal of helping others.

Monday, July 24, 2023

By Susan Ahlborn

Faculty

One Year Post-Dobbs, What’s Actually Happened?

Four takeaways from Penn Arts & Sciences researchers in the aftermath of the 2022 Supreme Court decision.

Monday, July 17, 2023

By Michele W. Berger

Faculty

The Science of Being Social

Five Penn Arts & Sciences researchers explain why connections are critical not just to human happiness but also to our survival.

Monday, May 22, 2023

By Loraine Terrell

Illustrations by Kingsley Nebechi

Words, Film, and Your Brain

Julia Ongchoco, C’23, is studying the difference a word can make—and making films to share her excitement.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

By Susan Ahlborn

The Art of Podcasting

A Center for Experimental Ethnography course lets students engage with artists via in-depth audio interviews, to examine questions of empire and exclusion.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

By Jane Carroll

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