Faculty
Echoes of the Presidential Past
American historian Bruce Kuklick shares his thoughts on this inaugural moment.
Election Q&A with Don Kettl
Political scientist Don Kettl answers questions about the candidates' experience and the challenges they face.
Political Underground Railroad
A new book by historian Steven Hahn takes up the hidden history of African American politics and the politics of writing history.
Doctors Without Modems?
Technology Historian Nathan Ensmenger checks the pulse of the e-health revolution.
Picking Up Pieces of the Puzzle
Cosmologist Mark Devlin builds a telescope that floats to the edge of space.
Obama and the World
Penn political science faculty members weigh in on the new president’s challenges and opportunities for U.S. foreign policy.
What Just Happened?
Making Sense of the 2008 Presidential Election in Real Time
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of Social Mind
Biologist Dorothy Cheney and psychologist Robert Seyfarth explore the intelligence underlying baboons' social organization.
Life in Motion
Larry Rome and John MacDermott introduce students to cutting-edge motion analysis technology. Three biomechanics students share their eye-opening videos below.
President Obama and the Burden of Race
Audio Q&A with American historian Thomas Sugrue
The State of the Union: Defining America From a Tightrope
An audio Q&A with Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History Mary Frances Berry
Oil and Water
Douglas Jerolmack and Federico Falcini of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science discuss the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Analysis That Matters
An audio Q&A with political scientist Brendan O'Leary on his service as United Nations advisor.
In My Words and Songs I Will Love
English professor Charles Bernstein publishes book of selected poems.
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. echoes the past in his latest musical projects.