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Learn from the experts with the Penn Science and Lightbulb Cafes
Katie Barott

Katie Barott, an assistant professor of biology in the School of Arts and Sciences, will present "Promoting Coral Survival in the Face of Climate Change," the first of the four lectures. (Photo courtesy of Barott)

Learn from the experts with the Penn Science and Lightbulb Cafes

The lecture series, hosted by the School of Arts and Sciences, offers a casual setting in which researchers can present their work and engage with the attendees during a Q&A period, giving a glimpse into the research at Penn.

Jacob Williamson-Rea

First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment
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The first particle tracks recorded by the ProtoDUNE detector at CERN usher in a new phase of investigation into neutrinos, the most abundant particles of mass in the universe. (Image: DUNE collaboration)

First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment

Neutrinos are the most abundant, and most mysterious, type of matter in the universe. Physicists from the School of Arts and Sciences had a hand in designing a massive instrument, the ProtoDUNE, that has detected the first evidence of these particles of matter.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Exploring the human propensity to cooperate
Exploring the human propensity to cooperate

Exploring the human propensity to cooperate

Working with a nomadic group in Tanzania, one of the last remaining nomadic hunter-gatherer populations, Penn psychologists show that cooperation is flexible, not fixed.

Michele W. Berger

Philadelphia and Meiji Japan symposium marks 150 years of deep ties
Centennial Japanese House Image of the Japanese Dwelling from the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

Philadelphia and Meiji Japan symposium marks 150 years of deep ties

Scholars from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, and the Meiji Jingu Intercultural Research Institute celebrate the 150th anniversary of Japan’s Meiji Restoration, and the surprising links between Philadelphia and Japan during a political period that set the island nation on a fast track to modernization.
The College of Liberal and Professional Studies launches online bachelor’s degree
Penn’s College of Liberal and Professional Studies launches online bachelor’s degree

The College of Liberal and Professional Studies launches online bachelor’s degree

The School of Arts and Sciences’ College of Liberal and Professional Studies has launched a new program that, for the first time, makes an Ivy League bachelor’s degree accessible online. Beginning in the fall of 2019, the Penn LPS Online platform will offer a fully-accredited, online education for working adults and other non-traditional students.
Physicist theorizes that dark matter is a superfluid
Physicist theorizes that dark matter is a superfluid

Physicist theorizes that dark matter is a superfluid

A hypothesis by Justin Khoury of the Department of Physics and Astronomy stands to shake up how scientists consider dark matter.

Jacob Williamson-Rea

A bustling summer at the Pennovation Center
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A bustling summer at the Pennovation Center

It was a season full of excitement, to kick off an academic year that will, undoubtedly, see even more fulfillment.

Lauren Hertzler

Penn Reading Project gets freshmen on the same page
Professors Michael Weisberg and David Fox leading Penn Reading Project

Michael Weisberg, professor and chair of philosophy, and David Fox, director of New Student Orientation, lead the discussion with the freshmen class on the Penn Reading Project and the Provost’s “Year of Why?”

Penn Reading Project gets freshmen on the same page

The Penn Reading Project, in its 28th year, is designed to bring the freshmen class together on one academic project. The Class of 2022 read Thornton Wilder’s “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” as part of the Provost’s “Year of Why?”
Returning to Vietnam
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Photo: David Thai

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Returning to Vietnam

A child of Vietnamese refugees, David Thai has returned to his family’s homeland as a Fulbright Scholar, where he will teach English at the Hoang Le Kha High School for Gifted Students, in the southwestern region of Vietnam, a few hours from where his mother grew up.
Through the Knight grant, a new vision for public art
AR Monument Lab

Marisa Williamson, Sweet Chariot, a 2017 augmented reality project from Monument Lab. (Steve Weinik/Mural Arts Philadelphia)

Through the Knight grant, a new vision for public art

Members of PennDesign, Penn Libraries, and the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation are curating a project to reimagine art and new digital technology.