OMNIA Podcast: Fear and Loathing and Science
In season three of our OMNIA podcast series, we explore scientific ideas that cause big reactions. We’ll look at stories of science getting knocked around, and standing back up again, in a world full of polarization, politics, misrepresentation, and simple misunderstanding.
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Penn Arts & Sciences Pathways: Andy Eskenazi, C'22, ENG'22
Andy Eskenazi's journey through the VIPER program has included humanities classes that have given him a better understanding of his work as an engineer and the world at large.
OMNIA Photo Essay: Back to Campus (For the First Time)
First- and second-year College students talk campus living and saying goodbye to virtual classes.
How Is a Cicada Like an Oak Tree? (And Why You Should Care)
Daniel Janzen, DiMaura Professor in Biology, on why cicadas (and wildebeests, salmon, and oak trees) act that way.
CSI: Shakespeare
Zachary Lesser, Edward W. Kane Professor of English, used ghosts, holes, and scrapes to learn more about how Shakespeare’s work was seen in his own time.
Sleight of Hand, Sleight of Mind
An interest in magic influenced Daniel Roy, C’20, to study neurobiology. Now the magician is using his research background to amaze the audiences at his shows.
Unconscious Memory
Damian Pang, Penn LPS Online Certificate in Neuroscience graduate, may have discovered a new type of memory.
Amateur Music-Making in the Early Republic
In a new book, Glenda Goodman, Assistant Professor of Music, probes how hand-copying musical compositions and amateur performance shaped identity and ideas in the post-Revolutionary War period.
The Sound and the Technology
Erik Broess, a doctoral candidate in musicology, studies how electric guitar gear influences the kinds of music guitarists create—and the kinds of music histories that get shared.
Forgetting Doesn’t Heal
Stephanie Gibson, a doctoral candidate in the history of art, explores monuments of trauma in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Black Atlantic.
