Featured below is a sample of talks from this year's 60-Second Slam, a annual lecture-off held during Penn's Alumni Weekend. This month's featured lectures include:
Looking at the Police Through Many Eyes
Ian Skahill, C'15, Urban Studies
Why Do Criminals Have Low Heart Rates?
Jill Portnoy, Doctoral Candidate, Criminology
When Nurture Meets Nature: The New Field of Behavioral Epigenetics
Ted Abel, Brush Family Professor of Biology
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