Asian American Studies Program Expands
School News
Moments in Time
Students from Senior Lecturer in English Paul Hendrickson’s long-form nonfiction master class share powerful passages from their intensely personal projects.
Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Times
A fateful trip to Eastern Europe in 1989 inspired Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Chair of Russian and East European Studies, to pursue a career studying the impact of the Cold War and its aftermath on the lives of ordinary people.
Threading the Needle
The B.A.A.S. Senior Portfolio demonstrates LPS students’ transferrable skills to the workplace and beyond.
School Funds Faculty Initiatives in Global Change and Social Justice
Penn Arts & Sciences has awarded grants for six projects through the Making a Difference in Global Communities and the Klein Family Social Justice initiatives.
Representation in Technology
Victor Scotti, Jr., C’13, works toward a future where diversity, equity, and inclusion are the norm.
New Penn President Gets to Know Penn Arts & Sciences
Elizabeth Magill, the new President of the University of Pennsylvania, met with Penn Arts & Sciences faculty, students, and staff to learn about highlights, priorities, and challenges across the School.
Cancer Cells Selectively Use ‘Drones’ to Keep T Cells From Infiltrating Tumors
Wei Guo, Class of 1965 Term Professor of Biology, identifies a new tool to help predict how a patient might respond to checkpoint inhibitor drugs.
New Faculty
New faculty members for the 2022–23 academic year.
Marrying Models With Experiments to Build More Efficient Solar Cells
Andrew M. Rappe, Blanchard Professor of Chemistry, and postdoctoral researcher Arvin Kakekhani lend their expertise to a study on solar cell efficiency.
Three Questions: Medieval Robots
Elly R. Truitt, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science, discusses the history of robots and automata in medieval Latin culture, the impulses that drove their creation, and shared characteristics with modern-day robots.
Ramanan Raghavendran Named Chair of Board of Advisors
Michael Price steps down following successful conclusion to Power of Penn Arts and Sciences Campaign.
Coral Resilience
Kristen Brown, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology, collects coral samples from different locations on a reef to see how they fared in acidic conditions.
Undergraduates Help Songbird Research Project Take Flight
Julia Youngman, C’24, and Eric Tao, C’25, had the opportunity to work in neuroethologist Marc Schmidt’s lab studying the neural basis of courtship behaviors in songbirds.