School of Arts & Sciences

PHILADELPHIA –- Along an isolated stretch of the eastern shoreline of Greece, a University of Pennsylvania classics professor and his colleagues are unlocking the secrets of a partially submerged “lost” harbor town believed to have been built by the Mycenaeans 3,500 years ago.

Jordan Reese ・April 2, 2008

PHILADELPHIA –- A pair of University of Pennsylvania juniors are among 65 students from 55 U.S. colleges and universities elected as 2008 Truman Scholars by 17 independent selection panels on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood of “making a difference.”

Jacquie Posey March 26, 2008

PHILADELPHIA –- The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant to draw inspiration from biological organisms, including humans, in order to create principles of cooperation to control teams of next-generation, unmanned, robotic vehicles.

Jordan Reese ・March 24, 2008

PHILADELPHIA -– Tobias Baumgart, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, and Joachim Krieger, assistant professor of mathematics at Penn, have been named Alfred P.

Jordan Reese ・March 24, 2008

PHILADELPHIA -– The preservation of ancient Maya sites, efforts to sustain modern Maya cultural traditions and the need to conserve vanishing tropical forests and coastal environments are all are on the agenda April 11-13 when the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology colla

Pam Kosty, Jordan Reese ・March 20, 2008

WHO: University of Pennsylvania studentsWHAT: Grassroots volunteer efforts to rebuild New Orleans WHERE: New OrleansWHEN: March 7-16

Jacquie Posey March 6, 2008

PHILADELPHIA -- Biologists at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University have examined the complete genomes of viruses that infect the bacteria E. coli, P. aeruginosa and L. lactis and have found that many of these viral genomes exhibit codon bias, the tendency to preferentially encode a protein with a particular spelling.

Jordan Reese ・March 3, 2008

WHO: Women of Color at the University of PennsylvaniaSpeakers include:Richard Gelles, Penn School of Social Policy and PracticedeanIra Harkavy, Penn’s Netter Center for CommunityPartnerships directorMichelle Kerr Spry, Mothers In ChargeJennifer Cronley, Congreso de Latinos UnidosGwendolyn Davis, Resources for Change

Jacquie Posey February 29, 2008

PHILADELPHIA -– A new study from the University of Pennsylvania points to increased health risks for women owing to their higher level of discomfort about being weighed in public. The study showed that college-age females, more than their male counterparts, experience high degrees of discomfort at the prospect of being weighed in the presence of others.

Jordan Reese ・February 28, 2008

PHILADELPHIA –- The “Kerner Plus 40 Report” is an assessment of how far the nation has come in dealing with racial inequality and tensions 40 years after the seminal report issued by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission.

Jacquie Posey February 26, 2008