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School of Arts & Sciences
Soft support can make unexpectedly stable glass
A team of researchers from Penn and the Brookhaven National Laboratory find a new way to manufacture stable glass.
Wrestling with academics
Wrestling with academics
As a student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, second-year wrestler Adam Thomson, an international champion, balances athletics with his research on hyperinflation in Brazil.
Archiving materials that reflect a ‘shared history’
Archiving materials that reflect a ‘shared history’
How 50 years of material from the Program in Gender Studies and Women’s Studies and the Penn Women’s Center becomes more accessible for students, faculty, and researchers.
Penn announces nine 2024 Thouron Scholars
Penn announces nine 2024 Thouron Scholars
Six fourth-year students and three recent graduates will use the award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
Marking 60 years of New York Times v. Sullivan
Marking 60 years of New York Times v. Sullivan
The Annenberg Public Policy Center commemorates the landmark Supreme Court case ahead of the ruling’s 60th anniversary.
The power of chick lit
The power of chick lit
Meghan Hall, lecturer and associate director for graduate studies in the Department of English, talks about what gives the popular literary genre its staying power.
Oscars predictions 2024
Oscars predictions 2024
Ahead of the 96th Academy Awards on March 10, Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve of Cinema & Media Studies offers predictions for the screenplay categories.
Kathleen Morrison on biodiversity and climate change
Kathleen Morrison on biodiversity and climate change
The faculty director of the Environmental Innovations Initiative, her research spans anthropology, archaeology, and paleoecology, involving the study of historic climates and environments, with a focus on South Asia.
Reading James Baldwin for a 21st century world
Reading James Baldwin for a 21st century world
To commemorate Baldwin’s approaching centennial, the Lotus Collective is hosting weekly readings and discussions of his work at Kelly Writers House.
Centuries of ‘TikTalk’
Centuries of ‘TikTalk’
The media popularity of the vocal trend called “TikTalk,” or a combination of uptalkand vocal fry, is actually nothing new, says linguist Mark Liberman.
In the News
The Wall Street Journal
Suddenly there aren’t enough babies. The whole world is alarmed
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of the School of Arts & Sciences estimates that global fertility last year fell to below global replacement for the first time in human history.
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Salon.com
The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the warming of the oceans is helping to destabilize ice shelves and fuel more powerful hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music
Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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The New York Times
Jerome Rothenberg, who expanded the sphere of poetry, dies at 92
Charles Bernstein of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the late Jerome Rothenberg was the ultimate hyphenated person: a poet-critic-anthologist-translator.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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