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Seven Things to Know About "The Waste Land" at 100

Monday, December 19, 2022

By Susan Ahlborn

OMNIA Podcast: In These Times, Season 4

Faculty

Topping off the new home for energy science at Penn (VIDEO)

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

Faculty

A Model for Refugee Hosting

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

Student

2023 Penn Grad Talks

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

Faculty

The Physics of Us

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

Faculty

Tree Wisdom

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

Student

A Taste of the Real World (Video)

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

Student

OMNIA Q&A: Symposium Ethnohistory Workshop

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

Alumni

A Poet Who Didn't Know It

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

Faculty

Democracy in Africa

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

Alumni

Dorm To Table

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

Student

A Chance to Explore Everything College

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

Alumni

Inspiring Community - Spring/Summer 2022

Highlighting Penn Arts & Sciences Alums

Thursday, June 2, 2022

Student

Penn Arts & Sciences Pathways: Timethius Terrell, C'24 (VIDEO)

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

Faculty

Office Artifacts: Justin McDaniel

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

Student

Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times

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

60-Second Lectures | Fall 2022 Roundup (VIDEO)

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

1.5* Minute Climate Lectures | Climate Week at Penn 2022 (Video)

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

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