Nick Matej

In a new book, Cam Grey, Professor of Classical Studies, explores the vital role of human agency in experiencing and mitigating risk and disaster in the late-Roman world.

In her new book, Associate Professor of Political Science Sarah Bush explores the increasingly crowded landscape of international NGOs.

A final batch of data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope shows our universe in its infancy, but Mark Devlin, Reese W. Flower Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, says many more exciting projects lie ahead.

Universities today face incredible challenges. Throughout the Spring/Summer 2025 issue—through stories about democracy, fundamental science, and much more—we aim to address those head on.

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.

Four Penn Arts & Sciences faculty offer ideas about democracy and its relationship to wealth, modern information environments, social identities, and shared norms.

Associate Professor of Criminology Aaron Chalfin reevaluates a 2017 research study on proactive policing and finds it not credible.

A collaboration between Biology Professor Wei Guo and colleagues in Penn Engineering and Penn Medicine discovered how solid tumors may block therapeutics from getting through.

Political Science Professor Marc Meredith and PORES Executive Director Stephanie Perry talk about why voting laws are so complicated, what has changed since the last election, voter turnout, mail-in ballots, poll workers, and why some races take longer to call than others.

Matthew Levendusky, Professor of Political Science and Stephen and Mary Baran Chair in the Institutions of Democracy at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, talks with PORES executive director Stephanie Perry about the myths and realities of political polarization in the United States.

Diana Mutz, Samuel A. Stouffer Professor of Political Science and Communication, speaks with podcast host and PORES executive director Stephanie Perry about a range of media-related topics, from media consumption to the institution’s influence on how the public understands government and politics.

The new season of our podcast examines the state of U.S. democracy in the context of the upcoming presidential election.