Agent of Change
Madeleine Joullié makes molecules and waves, leaving her mark in her specialty, her institution, and the lives of her students.
The Price of Parenthood
Research from Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology, and Ioana Marinescu of Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice, reveals how high childcare costs create family income inequality in the United States.
Sustainable Packaging Through Chemistry
Through her startup, AekoVera, fourth-year PhD candidate Kritika Jha helps bridge the gap for businesses struggling to adopt more eco-friendly packaging.
Centering Black History
Ahead of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Library Company, and 1838 Black Metropolis collaborated on a conference about Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Office Artifacts: Megan Kassabaum
Kassabaum, Associate Professor of Anthropology, describes five meaningful objects that surround her as she works.
Penn Arts & Sciences Pathways: Daniel Shevchenko, C’25 (Video)
A study abroad experience in Spain and a course on language policy deepened Shevchenko's interest in linguistics and political science.
A Semester of Mentoring
Alums representing media and technology, film production, investment banking, and more offer advice to undergrads at mentoring meals, roundtables, and coffee breaks.
Among the Elephants
Sixth-year Anthropology PhD student Rebecca Winkler has spent more than a decade documenting the lives of elephants and Indigenous people who co-exist in the forests of Thailand.
Perspectives on Heritage
Chrislyn Laurie Laurore, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology, is studying the public memory and history of slavery, particularly its curation in museums, monuments, memorials, and archaeological sites.
Print Edition
Fall/Winter 2024
This issue features leaders in the climate change fight, a look at the storied career of David Wallace and the evolution of Penn Arts & Sciences under Dean Fluharty, Quaker Quotes, a “genius grant,” and so much more.
Popular Stories
Among the Elephants
Sixth-year Anthropology PhD student Rebecca Winkler has spent more than a decade documenting the lives of elephants and Indigenous people who co-exist in the forests of Thailand.
Sustainable Packaging Through Chemistry
Through her startup, AekoVera, fourth-year PhD candidate Kritika Jha helps bridge the gap for businesses struggling to adopt more eco-friendly packaging.
The Price of Parenthood
Research from Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology, and Ioana Marinescu of Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice, reveals how high childcare costs create family income inequality in the United States.
Bob Dylan as Modern-Day Prophet
In his new book, political theorist Jeffrey Green takes a unique view of the famous musician.
Penn Arts & Sciences in the News
Fast Company
Is Free Will Freeing? Here’s Why the Freedom of Choice is a Trap in the Modern Era
February 22, 2025
Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, offers five key insights from her new book, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life, including how having choices makes us feel free and how having so many choices can have negative repercussions.
Slate
The Ascendance of the Book Ladder
February 22, 2025
Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Shannon Mattern describes the appeal of this type of ladder. “You not only have to use your hands to turn the page, but in this case you have to get down off the ladder, physically slide the thing—your whole body has to move. It’s kind of like a scaling up of the analog engagement with the book.”
The New York Times
Archaeologists Find a Pharaoh’s Tomb, the First Since King Tut’s, Egypt Says
February 21, 2025
Josef Wegner, Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, discusses the importance of the discovery. “It really cements the importance of Hatshepsut in anchoring the Valley of the Kings going forward,” he says. Hatshepsut took the thrown after the death of her husband Thutmose II.
The New York Times
This Man Won Birthright Citizenship for All
February 10, 2025
Rogers M. Smith, professor emeritus of political science, discusses automatic birthright citizenship, including for the children of undocumented immigrants, in light of recent court filings from the Trump administration.