Lauren Rebecca Thacker

Scholars across Penn Arts & Sciences are exploring memory. What they’re learning may change how we understand our minds, bodies, and histories.

Spanning disciplines and geographies, Africana studies at Penn has emerged as a leader in the field.

Three experts on contemporary China discuss what it’s like there after several tumultuous years of zero-COVID policies and changing public opinion.

Corine Labridy, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, writes and teaches about laughter, as well as its role in building identity and making sense of tough times.

Childhood curiosity led Joseph S. Francisco, President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, to a career as one of the country’s most prominent atmospheric chemists.

Bhuvnesh Jain and Greg Ridgeway, co-directors of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative, explain ChatGPT and generative AI, and what this technology means for learning and education.

With virtual and in-person programming through Cosmic Writers, Rowana Miller, C’22, wants to make writing education equitable—and fun.

Tiffany Tieu, C’22, worked on a psychological study that increased mask-wearing on campus.

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.

Mind DivE In is intended to make graduate school in the sciences more accessible to minority students.

A Family Weekend event invited College students and their families to hear from alums about the winding path from an undergraduate major to a career.

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.