Faculty Archive

Psychology professor Coren Apicella explores the relationship between competition and hormones.

German professor Catriona MacLeod scrutinizes sculpture in 19th-century German aesthetics.

Sociologist Emilio Parrado discusses the demographic relationship between fertility and immigration.

Remembering Annenberg Professor of History Michael Katz.

A Political Science Roundtable Discussion

Political Science's Devesh Kapur examines Dalit entrepreneurs.

Associate Professor of Biology Kimberly Gallagher examines plant growth mechanisms.

Associate Professor of Linguistics Julie Legate examines language structures.

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy James Aguirre looks deep into the history of the night sky.

Undergraduates look under the hood of democracy in the new Penn Program for Opinion Research and Election Studies.

Newly structured classes stress student-professor interaction

As stars began to form billions of years ago, they left behind a trail of light. Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy James Aguirre is following that trail all the way back to the birth of the first galaxies. With the help of his colleagues, he developed a special telescope known as PAPER (the Precision Array to Probe theEpoch of Reionization), which acts as a sort of super FM radio. PAPER allows Aguirre’s team to use electric field recordings to measure almost all of the sky visible in the southern hemisphere.

Dorothy Roberts on Redefining the Way We Define Race

Penn's "Evolution Cluster"

The Great War and Its Legacy

William Labov on the Human Core of Language

India’s 16th general election was historic in many ways. As with all national elections in India, this was by far the world’s largest electoral exercise, with 834 million registered voters. Sixty-six and four-tenths percent, or nearly 554 million, voted, an historic high for the country (the previous high was 64 percent in the 1984 elections).