Faculty Archive

  • Last November, the University announced a new investment of $750 million in science, engineering, and medicine at Penn that includes major commitments in support of key priorities at the School of Arts & Sciences.

  • Penn Arts & Sciences programs are advancing knowledge about Asia and Asians.

  • The Department of Biology joins in campus-wide efforts to diversify those honored in portraits and rethink how to approach representation through art.

  • Students in the Vagelos Life Sciences and Management first-year proseminar get a deep-end introduction to how scientific discoveries can be brought to the market.

  • Penn Arts & Sciences faculty and graduate students were recognized for their distinguished teaching and extraordinary commitment to students in 2022.

  • Michael C. Horowitz, Richard Perry Professor of Political Science and director of the Perry World House, was tapped this spring by the U.S. Department of Defense to lead the newly created Emerging Capabilities Policy Office in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.

  • Penn Arts & Sciences faculty continued to distinguish themselves through their research and teaching, and their work has been recognized with notable honors and awards.

  • In this season of In These Times, we talk to scholars, musicians and poets, and members of creative communities, to explore the link between making art and making meaning, and how creativity shines a light on the way out of adversity in tough times, past and present.

  • Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, discusses the state of democratic reform in Africa.

  • A new study details the relationship between particle structure and flow in disordered materials, insights that can be used to understand systems ranging from mudslides to biofilms.

  • Journalist alums and political science faculty are joining to share their experience and research and address whether democracy in the U.S. is in crisis, at a crossroads, or reaching a new normal.

  • Dan Treglia, Associate Professor of Practice, identifies the number of children who have lost parents and caregivers to COVID-19 and how to support them.

  • Philip Gressman, Professor of Mathematics, wants to make elections fairer through the application of computational mathematics to redistricting maps.

  • Faculty present minute-long talks on topics such as “The First 60 Seconds of the Universe.”

  • In his new book, Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, highlights the online diaries shared by Wuhan residents early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • A new lecture series in Classical Studies aims to advance understanding of the many ways the past is put to use in building the present.

  • Michael Weisberg, Bess W. Heyman President's Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, students, and Ecuador's Ambassador to the United States reflect on the momentous expansion of the Galápagos Marine Reserve.

  • On February 27 at the Annenberg Center, the longtime professor of music and acclaimed composer will be memorialized with the performance, Celebration and Remembrance: The Music of James Primosch.

  • Sherelle Ferguson, GR’21, and Annette Lareau, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor in the Social Sciences, find that “hostile ignorance” can come from surprising places.

  • The Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy on his early love of biology, his turn into the philosophy of science, and his educational journey from Nashville to Cornell to Stanford.

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