Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Andy Eskenazi's journey through the VIPER program has included humanities classes that have given him a better understanding of his work as an engineer and the world at large.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Video by Evan Smith
Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, challenges literature that touts marriage as a cure for poverty.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
By Karen Brooks
Anna Lehr Mueser, a doctoral candidate in history and sociology of science, studies memory, loss, and technology in the New York City Watershed and the villages that were destroyed to construct it.
Thursday, September 23, 2021
By Lauren Rebecca Thacker
Three historians weigh in on how we can understand our past.
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
By Susan Ahlborn
Illustrations by Vanessa Lovegrove
Eric Schelter, Professor of Chemistry, offers his thoughts on chemistry’s continuing promise, and its public relations problem.
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
By Loraine Terrell
Illustrations by Dan Lee
Photography by Eric Sucar, University Communications
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
