School of Arts & Sciences

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.

Benjamin Franklin, founder of the University of Pennsylvania, is believed to have experimented with lightning’s powerful properties using a kite and key, likely coming close to electrocuting himself in the process.

On May 2, 2017, the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate the launch of the Penn Center for Health, Devices and Technology, or Penn Health-Tech, a University-wide effort to advance Penn’s world-class breakthroughs into new devices and health technologies to meet the world’s most pressing health care needs.

Barbara D. Savage of the University of Pennsylvania has been chosen as the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford for the 2018-19 academic year. 

The function of a plant’s roots go well beyond simply serving as an anchor in the ground. The roots act as the plant’s mouth, absorbing, storing and channeling water and nutrients essential for survival.

At the April 21 Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps’ Pass-in-Review ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania, President Amy Gutmann praised the NROTC students for “service to ot

The Penn Libraries is pleased to announce that a team of humanities scholars and information scientists that includes Lynn Ransom, curator of programs at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, has been awarded a 2017

Ivan Kuznetsov, an M.D./Ph.D.