School of Arts & Sciences

Kamala Harris waving and smiling at left, Vice President Mike Pence at a podium on the right

Takeaways from the vice presidential debate

Historian Barbara D. Savage shares her thoughts on the first vice presidential debate in history featuring a Black woman.

Sachs grant paves way for ‘Sis Uprising’ in experimental video

Works by Arien Wilkerson and Sachs Artist-in-Residence Ricardo Bracho debut at a virtual event for Slought.

A small child’s hand holding the pointer finger of an elderly person’s hand.

Blocking enzyme’s self-destruction may mitigate age-related diseases

Penn researchers have discovered a potential new way to maintain a key enzyme, SIRT1, which is tied to aging.

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New exhibition ‘Re-materialize’ features artists who transform recycled materials

Open to the public for the first time since March, the Arthur Ross Gallery’s new exhibition “Re-materialize” features sculptures and mixed-media work by four artists who transform found and recycled materials.

A banner reading "cheers to 20 years" hangs behind a man (center) and three women at a podium

At La Casa Latina, Kareli Lizárraga ensures students are ‘empowered to be vulnerable’

Kareli Lizárraga is the interim director of La Casa Latina, which serves those interested in learning about Latinx culture and the more than 2,000 Latinx students at Penn.

New student-created journal offers window to Middle East, North Africa

Sophomore Laila Shadid and junior Zeynep Karadeniz, both in the College of Arts and Sciences, share a passion for understanding the Middle East—a passion that is now on display in “Fenjan.”

Empowerment through poetry: Ollie Kim Dupuy and the Humanizing Stories project

Sophomore Ollie Kim Dupuy brings a passion for performance poetry into a summer internship with the Graduate School of Education’s Ebony Elizabeth Thomas.

Woman in a red jacket standing at a podium with two microphones.

Across U.S. Catholic archdioceses, child protection policies vary widely

A report from CHILD USA, led by Professor of Practice Marci Hamilton, found that such policies lack uniformity, aren’t comprehensive, and often don’t take a victim-centered approach.

Morning sun shining through a window in a hospital room with a patient lying in bed attached to tubes and monitors.

U.S. COVID deaths may be underestimated by 36%

The research team found that more of these deaths occurred in places with greater income inequality, more non-Hispanic Black residents, and other factors indicating a pattern related to socioeconomic disadvantage and structural racism.

Person wearing a face mask walking past a large American flag.

Political polarization distilled using data science

Penn juniors Emma Arsekin and Janelle Schneider broke down partisanship politics by analyzing metadata as PURM research assistants for political science Professor Daniel Hopkins.

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