
Articles from Eric Sucar


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

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

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

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.
Looking beyond the disease to the person living with it

In conversation with the Russian ambassador

Akins makes history at the Penn Relays

From left: Nia Akins, Melissa Tanaka, Uchechi Nwogwugwu, and Maddie Villalba pose for photos at center field after winning the Women’s DMR Championship of America during the 125th running of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field in Philadelphia on April 25.