Participants discuss the intense, weeklong course of study aimed at expanding students’ intellectual horizons and preparing them for life on campus and in the classroom.
Emilio Parrado, professor and the chair of the Department of Sociology, discusses Latin American migration.
Velay Fellow Paulina Destarac, C'19, discusses her "Dark Energy Survey" project at the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships Open House and Research Expo.
This past spring, members of the first graduating class in Penn’s Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) presented their capstone research and design projects. VIPER was created in 2012 to educate innovators who could lead the search for practical and sustainable ways to produce energy.
Sophie Bodek (Earth and Environmental Science, C'18) spent the summer conducting research on the chipping and fragmentation of rocks with Professor Jerolmack in Penn's Sediment Dynamics Laboratory.
Matthew Levendusky, associate professor of political science, discusses the standout moments of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.
Bianca Reo Charbonneau, Ph.D. candidate in biology, studies how sand dunes protect the Jersey coast.
Professors of Philosophy Gary Hatfield, Scott Weinstein, and Daniel Singer discuss the influential scholar’s legacy in their field and his unique connection with Penn as scholar and alumnus.
Students from the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management share their capstone presentations with the research sector.
Here we highlight the journeys of members of our faculty as they followed their paths from impressionable young students to world-class scholars.
Doctoral candidates Roksana Filipowska and Maria Murphy create a series of workshops that explore sound technologies and their impact on our daily lives.
A mother’s distress at the sound of her young being threatened—what could be more natural?