School of Arts & Sciences

Rethinking extreme environments, from human spaceflight to heat in Philadelphia

Anthropology professor Mallika Sarma of the School of Arts & Sciences is challenging what we think of as an extreme environment—beyond settings like low temperature or high altitude—and who gets studied.

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The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations receives grant from the Henry Luce Foundation

The grant will allow the Project to build and expand on its mission of elevating new voices in U.S.-China policy discussion. The Project launched in January 2020 with its inaugural fellowship cohort with initial seed funding from the Luce Foundation.

Luiza Sulea standing in front of neon WXPN sign

Radio days for rising third-year Luiza Sulea

Rising third-year Luiza Sulea is working in marketing at Penn’s WXPN radio through the Summer Humanities Internship Program.

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SHEAR James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize to Sarah L. H. Gronningsater for “The Rising Generation”

The James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, awarded annually to the best first book by a new author published in the previous calendar year and dealing with any aspect of the history of the early American republic, went to Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, associate professor of history at Penn’s School of Arts &N Sciences, for “The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom.”

Jennifer Morton stands in front of Cohen Hall at the University of Pennsylvania.

A public-facing, interdisciplinary, and student-centered approach to philosophy

Philosophy professor Jennifer Morton’s experiences growing up in Peru during the politically turbulent 1980s and ’90s and as a first-generation college student shaped her research interests.

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2024 Booklaunch award for Nancy Steinhardt

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt's book, “Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire,” has won the Booklaunch award for Best Architectural History Book of 2024. Shatzman Steinhart is a professor of East Asian art at the School of Arts & Sciences. Her book is the first comprehensive English-language study of Chinese architecture during the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

A man is seen on a television screen, framed by the heads of people watching.

Q&A

Japan’s election outcomes

Political scientist Daniel Smith discusses the results of the Japanese parliamentary elections and the effects on the country’s future.

2 minutes

Venom on the Fang of a Diamondback Rattlesnake

AI-driven discovery of hundreds of potential antibiotics

Research from the lab of César de la Fuente on an AI-powered screen of global venom libraries uncovers dozens of promising drug candidates.

2 min. read

Sierra Williams standing on a stairway in a library.

Researching cultural heritage at the Penn Museum

Aiming for a career in the museum field, Sierra Williams, a rising third-year in the College of Arts & Sciences, is working on a research study at the Penn Museum’s Penn Cultural Heritage Center through the Summer Humanities Internship Program.