Fall/Winter 2017

Volume 5

In this issue of OMNIA, our cover story, “Water, Water Everywhere,” focuses on our most basic need and universal challenge: water. This includes access to safe drinking water, warming oceans, and strong infrastructure and storm protection.

In “Arts and Sciences in Action,” we cover the School's multi-pronged approach to issues within the global community. We also investigate the brain's natural GPS and how medieval manuscripts can be an educational tool on social media.

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Features

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    Water, Water Everywhere

    Arts and Sciences faculty study how this key resource is changing—from warmer oceans to once-thriving waterways now inhospitable to life—and what that means for the world. 

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Answering the Call

Paul Sniegowski, the newly appointed Stephen A. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, riffs on research, teaching, and the liberal arts.

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Inner Explorer

Investigating the brain's innate ability to map our surroundings.

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Arts and Sciences in Action

New grant initiatives have Penn Arts and Sciences faculty and students engaging with each other and the rest of the world.

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Tweeting the Medieval

Emily Steiner, Professor of English, uses new technology to illuminate age-old manuscripts.

Movers & Quakers

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Skimming to Success

Carly Zakin, C'08, creates a new way to get the news.

In the Classroom

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Live and Learn

Move-In Day for freshmen in the Integrated Studies Program was the beginning of a year of living and learning together.

Insomnia

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Office Artifacts: Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Discover the stories behind the Associate Professor of History of Art's favorite office items.

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Three Questions: Witchcraft

Featuring Robert St. George

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Dean's Message

Editor's Note

School News

Findings

Student Spotlight

Last Look

Past Issues