
Articles from Eric Sucar


Senior Ahsen Kayani checks on the tanks, set up alongside the BioPond.
Putting mussels to the test

The event was part of Philly Tech Week, a citywide technology showcase, and attracted entrepreneurs and potential funders.
For Philly Tech Week, a showcase for cutting-edge robots

Novelist and Penn alum Jennifer Egan taught a literature course on modern fiction this semester as an artist-in-residence.
Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan

Music 236 combines professional performance instruction with academic study of music history and analysis. Tom Kraines (standing), a cellist and artist-in-residence with the Daedalus Quartet and pianist Yu Xi Wang (seated center), of the Curtis Institute of Music work with Penn sophomore Justin Blum on the cello and freshman Jasmine Chen on the piano.
Musical merger of academics and performance

The 104th Hey Day for a future iconic class

For the first time, students at Penn had the chance to learn Kurdish, through a class offered by the Annenberg School for Communication and taught by doctoral student Mohammed Salih (center), a native speaker.
Kurdish is the newest class on the global language roster

In conversation with the Russian ambassador

Supporting the Schuylkill

A new course taught by PIK Professor Jay Gottfried (standing) has students leading discussions on cognitive neuroscience topics during one session, like the class shown here, then at the next, brings them face to face with people who have those or similar conditions.