Faculty
Honorable Disobedience
Toni Bowers follows historical literary heroines’ battles with seduction.
Mutual Attraction
Ivan Dmochowski and David Jacobson peer into radon’s binding preferences.
Like Father, Like Son
Paul Hendrickson explores Ernest Hemingway’s softer side.
Will the Supreme Court Protect Hollywood…and Jimi Hendrix?
Peter Decherney, Associate Professor of English and Cinema Studies, asks whether Congressional copyright law stifles the Arts.
The Politics of Style
Historian Kathy Peiss' new book traces the turbulent history of the zoot suit.
Quarky Conversations
The Cosmic Tenors bring physics to a lecture hall near you.
An Inevitable Revolution
In this video Q&A, Eve Troutt Powell provides a historian's perspective on the Egyptian uprising.
Deconstructing Caste
Penn's Center for the Advanced Study of India helms breakthrough study of socioeconomics among India's Dalit caste.
Forecasting the Future
Biologists Peter Petraitis and Brenda Casper travel to northern Mongolia to chart climate change and its effect on local ecology.
How Would Lennie Briscoe Vote?
New research by Diana Mutz explores the not-so-subtle influence of television on political beliefs.
Expanding Horizons
Physicist Mark Trodden explores the ways in which unknown forces are manipulating the universe.
Conversations on Neuroscience and Society
SAS faculty share their insights on the human brain.
Next Door But Invisible: The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction
Penn medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and UC grad student Jeff Schonberg study the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco.
Night Light
Cosmologist Mark Devlin uses balloon-borne telescope to find the source of half the light in the universe.