Louisa Shepard

Fall foliage is expected to be especially bright and colorful this year because plentiful summer rains, followed by September’s warm days and cool nights, have kept the leaves on the trees longer than drier seasons, says a Penn horticulturist. 

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón engaged in a wide-ranging discussion about global and national issues during the inaugural Penn Biden Global Leaders Dialogue.

Celebrating its 10th year on stage in Russia, an opera composed by University of Pennsylvania music professor Jay Reise will be performed in Moscow’s new Stravinsky Hall this fall.

At a pre-release screening of his new movie “Stronger” at the University of Pennsylvania, Academy Award-winning producer alumnus Todd Lieberman discussed filmmaking, his career and the movie business with Penn Professor Peter Decherney, director of the

The line had been in his head for years: “I can’t stop thinking about corn.” Its meaning was a mystery for Herman Beavers, a professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Pennsylvania.“I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t know what it meant,” Beavers said.

Art is an integral part of Penn’s campus. In the museums, yes, but also in more than 100 other locations, inside and out.

 

Bright blue beadwork comes into view as Ramey Mize slowly pulls open a drawer in a storage room of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, revealing an intricate pattern with red and yellow on the smooth buckskin of a fringed Native American dress.Breathtaking, but is this the right one?

Given as a gift to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology more than a century ago, 187 Japanese archeological artifacts in storage are getting new attention through an object-based learning class at Penn this semester.

High in the mountains of Peru, in the ancient city of Cusco, University of Pennsylvania graduate student Julia Slater worked to discover creative ways to make workshops on climate change responsive to the needs of indigenous farming communities.