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Penn Flutes Performs on Campus and in Community

Penn Flutes Performs on Campus and in Community

The unlikely sound of flutes filled the rotunda of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology on a recent Friday, drawing visitors to the live concert by Penn students. 
What Makes Creative People Creative?

What Makes Creative People Creative?

In a small conference room in the basement of a hotel, four comedians, two psychologists, a cartoonist and a seven-time New Yorker caption contest winner sit around a U-shaped table.

Michele W. Berger

Penn Psychologists Find Photos, Videos Result in Similar Understanding of Actions

Penn Psychologists Find Photos, Videos Result in Similar Understanding of Actions

Viewing an action — for example, biting or kicking or punching — in a photo versus a video doesn’t change the understanding of what’s taking place, according to new research from University of Pennsylvania psychologists Russell Epstein,

Michele W. Berger

Penn Researchers Investigate How Songbirds Teach Themselves Songs

Penn Researchers Investigate How Songbirds Teach Themselves Songs

Music can be a powerful form of expression. It’s especially important for songbirds such as zebra finches, which learn the songs of their fathers in order to court mates.

Ali Sundermier

Climate Change’s Weather Swings Bring Trials for Plants, Penn Experts Say

Climate Change’s Weather Swings Bring Trials for Plants, Penn Experts Say

It was a lovely day on the University of Pennsylvania campus: sunny and 70 degrees. Students sunbathed and tossed Frisbees on College Green, near cherry trees on the verge of blooming. The only incongruity? It was still winter.

Katherine Unger Baillie