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Daniel Shevchenko sitting on a campus bench holding a book.
Penn Arts & Sciences Pathways: Daniel Shevchenko, C’25 (Video)

A study abroad experience in Spain and a course on language policy deepened Shevchenko's interest in linguistics and political science.

Kritika Jha standing at a podium with a sign that reads Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Sustainable Packaging Through Chemistry

Through her startup, AekoVera, fourth-year PhD candidate Kritika Jha helps bridge the gap for businesses struggling to adopt more eco-friendly packaging.

Randi Michel
A Semester of Mentoring

Alums representing media and technology, film production, investment banking, and more offer advice to undergrads at mentoring meals, roundtables, and coffee breaks.

Two adult elephants and a baby elephant standing in the jungle surrounded by trees.
Among the Elephants

Sixth-year Anthropology PhD student Rebecca Winkler has spent more than a decade documenting the lives of elephants and Indigenous people who co-exist in the forests of Thailand.

Chrislyn Laurore
Perspectives on Heritage

Chrislyn Laurie Laurore, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology, is studying the public memory and history of slavery, particularly its curation in museums, monuments, memorials, and archaeological sites.

Five people standing in front of a sphinx
Winners of the Ninth Annual Penn Grad Talks (Video)

TED-style talks on crowdfunding in ancient Greece, gender gaps in political tolerance, shyness, opera singers and language, and how to know what you don’t know, took home the day’s top prizes.

Three College of Arts & Sciences students smiling at camera.
Inspiring Figures in Black History (Video)

Three students from the College highlight individuals including journalist and activist Ida B. Wells, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and John Edmonstone, a taxidermist who trained Charles Darwin.

Many names written in a ledger in cursive handwriting.
Modern Medicine and the History of Graverobbing

Using archival documents and primary source material in Philadelphia and Scotland, Catherine Sorrentino, C’25, uncovered what happened to society’s most vulnerable with the rise of “anatomical medicine.”

An excavation site. In the center are two mosaics on brown dirt, surrounded by a low rock wall and then higher limestone walls on three sides.
Unearthing the Secrets of an Ancient Greek City

Classical archaeologist and architectural historian Mantha Zarmakoupi has spent the past four summers excavating the ruins of a city council building at the center of Teos in western Türkiye, in collaboration with the Teos Archaeological Project of Ankara University.

At the top half of the image, a football that has Wilson and NFL on it. At the bottom half are two team logos, at left a KC for Kansas City Chiefs, at right an eagle head, the mascot for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Can Sports Fandom Be a Religious Experience?

With the Philadelphia Eagles set to compete for the ultimate prize at Super Bowl LIX, Megan Robb, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, has noticed a “buzz of collective effervescence” in her Religion and Sports class, a space where students discuss ritual and ceremony, debate where sports and religion intersect—even meet the Eagles chaplain.

Data Driven Discovery
The Missing Data Link

Whether decoding medieval manuscripts or analyzing national polling numbers, Penn’s 100-plus data scientists have plenty to talk about, and Penn Arts & Sciences’ Data Driven Discovery Initiative is leading the charge in fostering collaboration.

Three people on a raft. One, standing up, is slightly older, holding a stick to paddle across the water. The other two, younger children, site with their backpacks on their back. One is facing forward, the other facing back.
India, Floods, and Learning Outcomes

Research from PhD student Nazar Khalid, Professors Emily Hannum and Jere Behrman, and Senior Lecturer Amrit Thapa investigates how more intensive and frequent flooding is affecting young students in the country’s rural north.

Old weathered paper with information hand-written on there, displaying a transcript with information about Martin Luther King Jr., including address, birth date, and three courses he took at Penn.
One Moment: When Martin Luther King Jr. Studied Philosophy at Penn

The original record card listing the classes lives in the University Archives, a visual reminder of the time the 20-year-old future Civil Rights leader spent on campus.

Three old black-and-white photographs laid out on black paper with archival book material open to the right and other images to the left.
Processing the Past

A hands-on graduate-level internship course co-taught by Zita Nunes, Associate Professor of English, and Holly Mengel, Head of Archives and Manuscripts Processing at Penn Libraries, reveals the complex world of academic archiving.

2024 Year in Review
2024 Year in Review

As the calendar flips to 2025, we look back at a few of the dozens of stories we had the privilege of sharing this past year.

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