Heather A. Davis

SOCIAL LIFE: Jason Fernandes, the 2014-15 president of the executive board of the Social Planning & Events Committee (SPEC), knows a thing or two about hosting a good event.

On a particularly rain-soaked spring afternoon at the Community Farm and Resource Center at Bartram’s Garden, located in Southwest Philadelphia, curly kale seedlings are going into the ground.

PennPraxis has been instrumental in some of the biggest discussions about public space in Philadelphia in the last 14 years.

Sigmund Freud is known as the father of psychoanalysis, shaping theories that inform what we know about human development and sexual desire.

Writing a dissertation may be a marathon rather than a sprint—but that doesn’t mean the process of sitting down to write needs to be the equivalent of a solitary run.

Every two weeks, high school students don hard hats for a construction site tour, pour over blueprints to a building, or fashion an architectural model out of gumdrops and uncooked spaghetti.

CIVICS 101: There’s a problem with what people know about government and civics—and that problem is that people know surprisingly little. According to national survey results released last fall from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC), only 36 percent of respondents could name all three branches of government.

In her career, Ana-Rita Mayol has worked to get students from middle through graduate school excited about science. She’s developed science education programs and mentorships, as well as programs to train teachers so they’re better equipped to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers.

Jim Thorpe is remembered as one of the 20th century’s greatest athletes. He was an Olympic gold medalist for the pentathlon and decathlon in 1912 and played professional American football, baseball, and basketball.

Twitter has helped to launch or torpedo careers, bring cute animal pictures to millions, and document social movements from the ground up. Now, the social media site can be considered an accurate predictor of rates of atherosclerotic heart disease in communities across the United States.