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Blowing Up Proteins

Graduate student Beatrice Markiewicz is using novel techniques to disassemble the amyloid proteins responsible for diseases like Alzheimer’s.

A Q&A With Penn’s Newest Rhodes Scholar

Rutendo Chigora, C’15, talks about her plans and her social venture in Zimbabwe.

A Critical Look at the Human Rights Council (Video)

Undergraduate Benjamin Fogel examines the effectiveness of the United Nations’ efforts.

Penn Introduces Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor

Assistant Professor Margaret Bruchac is building an interdisciplinary program on long-term strengths.

Intellectual Bootcamp

The Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute for Pre-Freshmen opens minds—and doors.

See Psittacosaurus Run

Graduate student Brandon Hedrick is using statistics to show how dinosaurs looked, moved, and evolved.

Social Media and War (Video)

Wing So, C'16, examines social media’s impact on war.

Prison and Health

Graduate student Valerio Bacak gathers evidence for better criminal justice penalties.

Seeing the World

Undergraduate Leah Davidson uses the visual arts to energize environmentalism.

Knowledge Vault

Sophomore Brianna Krejci investigates the cemeteries of historic Germantown.

Keeping Science Fun

Doctoral students Kelsey VanGelder and Lyndsay Wood found science learning program for local students.

Music Making

Doctoral candidate Osei Alleyne follows a musical path across the Atlantic from Africa—and back.

The Science of Ethics

Doctoral student Justin Landy studies stressful decision-making scenarios.

Where Science and Fiction Intersect

English graduate student Jason Zuzga’s summer course tackles aliens, monsters, and what it means to be human.

Survey Says...

Undergraduates look under the hood of democracy in the new Penn Program for Opinion Research and Election Studies.