Spring/Summer 2020
Spring/Summer 2020
In this issue of OMNIA, our cover story highlights an interdisciplinary program that is using collaborative teaching and learning to tackle the continuing challenge of climate change. We also examine how our faculty are navigating the new world of big data using mapping, how a legal scholar is fighting institutional child abuse, how a faculty-led excavation at a historic site in central Turkey led to important new discoveries, and why connecting students with math early on is critical for developing mathematicians-to-be. Also included is a special section focused on how Penn Arts & Sciences is responding and adapting to the COVID-19 crisis.
Features
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The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities promotes interdisciplinary, collaborative teaching and learning with real-world impacts.
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Julia Hartmann is finding solutions, both in math and for mathematicians-to-be.
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Faculty across the arts and sciences are navigating the new world of big data.
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Marci Hamilton, Fels Institute of Government Professor of Practice, has faced down institutional child abuse for decades—and she is just getting started.
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Collaborations between physicists and mathematicians showcase the importance of research that crosses the traditional boundaries that separate fields of science.
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Brian Rose, James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies, and his team’s recent excavation at a historic site in central Turkey was one of the most successful in history.
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Enhancing Foundations, Transcending Frontiers
