Faculty Archive

Psychologist Michael Kahana identifies a type of brain cell that senses direction.

Geologist Doug Jerolmack and students track landscape degradation in Alaska.

Cognitive neuroscientist Amishi Jha studies mindfulness training for military preparedness.

New research explores why different patients respond better to different treatments.

Neuroscientist Sharon Thompson-Schill shows that a little bit of frontal lobe goes a long way in learning.

Criminologist Richard Berk designs software aimed at reducing recidivism.

Mathematicians Phillip Gressman and Robert Strain solve a 140-year old equation describing the motion of gas molecules.

English professor Nancy Bentley probes the artistic dimensions of shock and awe.

Art historian Holly Pittman analyzes the oldest seal found on the Arabian Peninsula.

Historian Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet's debut novel chronicles lives upended by the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

Music professor co-curates Smithsonian exhibit on the history of Harlem's Apollo Theater.

Historian Stephanie McCurry tells how women and slaves drove old Dixie down.

Roman historian Campbell Grey helps curate exhibition exploring America's Roman inheritance.

Classical scholar James Ker presents the first comprehensive cultural history of one of antiquity's most studied death scenes.

Penn Chemistry adopts innovative technology designed to supercharge testing processes.

Beth Linker describes the impact of rehabilitation services during World War I.

Adriana Petryna says the decades-old disaster may prove invaluable in responding to Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.

Associate Professor of History Beth Wenger chronicles Jewish Americans' quest for historical identity.

Ted Abel investigates sleep deprivation’s effect on cognition.

John Trueswell and Lila Gleitman use adults to mimic the language-learning process in infants.