Monday, December 19, 2022
By Susan Ahlborn
On February 3, 2023, P. Roy Vagelos, President Magill, and the Penn community celebrated the installation of the final beam of the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Video by Alex Schein
Guy Grossman, Professor of Political Science, investigates the effects of Uganda’s refugee-hosting reforms on preventing public backlash.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
By Katelyn Silva
On February 24, some of Penn Arts & Sciences' top graduate students shared their insights with a packed house (and online audience) at the 2023 Penn Grad Talks.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Physicists are studying how living matter works, and find that it breaks the standard rules and produces fascinating new phenomena.
Monday, December 5, 2022
By Susan Ahlborn
Illustrations by Marina Muun
In his new book, Jared Farmer, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, examines what trees can teach us about the climate crisis and our relationship with time.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
By Kristen de Groot
Adapted by Katelyn Silva
Summer internships let Vagelos Life Sciences and Management students put what they’ve learned into practice and guide them into the future.
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
By Susan Ahlborn
Video by Alex Schein
Young scholars from Latin America discuss their experience at a three-week workshop on "Dispossessions in the Americas."
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
By Blake Cole
Writing always came naturally to Airea Matthews, C’94, but she was afraid to study English in college. Her family hadn’t encouraged reading, and she assumed her unfamiliarity with the classics would sideline her in literature courses.
Friday, August 5, 2022
OMNIA 101 offers readers a peek into what faculty do every day in their classrooms and how their research and expertise are inspiring the next generation.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
By Jane Carroll
Illustration by Kingsley Nebechi
Amanda Shulman, C’15, went from hosting dinner parties in her dorm room to opening her own Philadelphia restaurant.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
By Katelyn Silva
Hundreds of first-year students filled the tent, their voices almost drowning out the drum combo that was playing.
Friday, September 2, 2022
By Susan Ahlborn
Highlighting Penn Arts & Sciences Alums
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Timethius Terrell, a psychology major with a joint minor in legal studies and history, pursues his aspirations of becoming a “scholar activist.”
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Video by Kyla Goodman
Discover the stories behind the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Religious Studies’ office items—in his own words.
Friday, February 3, 2023
A fateful trip to Eastern Europe in 1989 inspired Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies, to pursue a career studying the impact of the Cold War and its aftermath on the lives of ordinary people.
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
By Duyen Nguyen
Illustrations by Mariya Pilipenko
This year, the fall 60-Second Lectures took place on one day with six faculty experts presenting on topics ranging from exploration of the universe's origins to the study of indigenous politics.
Thursday, September 22, 2022
Professors and leaders from across the University united in a series of lectures to sound the alarm about the climate emergency.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022