School of Arts & Sciences

In a unique class that combined history and theatre, a 79-year-old radio broadcast became surprisingly relevant to 12 University of Pennsylvania students.

Jere R. Behrman, a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Population Studies Center, has received the biennial Irene B. Taeuber Award of the Population Association of America.

An ancient sink hole in eastern Tennessee holds the clues to an important transitional time in the evolutionary history of snakes. Among the fossilized creatures found there, according to a new paper co-authored by a University of Pennsylvania paleontologist, is a new species of snake that lived 5 million years ago.

Four faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences for “their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

The University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Museum of Art have been jointly awarded $500,000 from the Andrew W.

Twenty University of Pennsylvania students and alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S.

Halfway through Anea Moore’s first semester as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, she lost her mother to a heart attack, just months after losing her father to lung disease. Through that grief, she has found a way to heal by reaching out to help others.

Under the umbrella of the Theater Arts Council, TACe, students at the University of Pennsylvania, have the opportunity to bask in the limelight, both behind and in front of the curtain.

University of Pennsylvania professor Nancy Hirschmann studies how disability and feminism intersect from a unique perspective, that of a political theorist.

Diana Mutz, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected to receive a 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.