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Demystifying grad school to enhance diversity in STEM
Two students look together at a notebook amid a larger group

Ice breaker activities helped the students connect, building relationships that the DEEPenn STEM organizers hope serve them well as they navigate an entry into scientific graduate work and beyond. (Image: Lamont Abrams)

Demystifying grad school to enhance diversity in STEM

Earlier this month, 48 undergraduate students from around the country traveled to Penn for a three-day gathering full of workshops, lectures, networking opportunities, lab tours, Q & A sessions, and a resource fair.

Katherine Unger Baillie

New islet transplant method leads to insulin independence
An uncapped insulin pen.

New islet transplant method leads to insulin independence

A method developed by the Clinical Islet Transplantation Consortium removed the need for insulin for many years among some of the most seriously affected Type 1 diabetes patients.

From Penn Medicine News

A ‘new beginning’ for Penn
liz magill in irvine after inauguration

Liz Magill, Penn’s ninth president, walks in the academic procession as part of her inauguration. 

A ‘new beginning’ for Penn

The University celebrated the inauguration of Liz Magill, its ninth president, on Friday, Oct. 21.

Lauren Hertzler

New Penn Global program fosters ethical research around the world
A portrait of a seal at the beach

As part of the PGRI program, students are studying the effects of climate change, which threatens both wildlife and humans living in the Galápagos. (Image: Victoria Moffitt)

New Penn Global program fosters ethical research around the world

The first student cohort of the Penn Global Research Institute piloted the program this summer in the Galápagos.

Marilyn Perkins

Penn honors eight distinguished alumni with Awards of Merit and The Creative Spirit Award
Eight headshots in a grid.

Top row, left to right: Alex H. Park, Lee Spelman Doty, Joan Lau, and Omid Shokoufandeh. Bottom row, left to right: Alberto Chamorro, Laura W. Perna, Todd Lieberman, and William Hohns.

Penn honors eight distinguished alumni with Awards of Merit and The Creative Spirit Award

In addition to the alumni awards, Laura W. Perna of the Graduate School of Education will accept the Faculty Award of Merit.
Jayson Musson: ‘His History of Art’
Jayson Musson with frizzy muppet

Jayson Musson. (Image: Carlos Avendaño)

Jayson Musson: ‘His History of Art’

Musson, an alumnus of the Master of Fine Arts program in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, will speak at the Annenberg Center about his artistic practice and current exhibition “His History of Art.”

Anna Chen

A modern history of ancient trees, through the lens of climate change
jared farmer sitting on a bench on college green

Jared Farmer, history professor and chair of graduate studies. (Image: Eric Sucar, University of Pennsylvania).

  • Q&A

    • A modern history of ancient trees, through the lens of climate change

    Historian Jared Farmer discusses his new book, “Elderflora,” looking at why humans have no trouble looking at the ancient past but can’t seem to envision the deep future, and what trees can teach us.

    Kristen de Groot

    Where political views and fundamental beliefs intersect
    Three maps of the U.S., one blue, one purple, one red, indicating partisan politics.

    Where political views and fundamental beliefs intersect

    Research from The Penn Primals Project debunks the idea that conservatives think the world is more dangerous than liberals, findings with implications for future research and productive political debate.

    Michele W. Berger