School of Arts & Sciences

Michael Leja, a history of art professor and chair of the history of art graduate group at the University of Pennsylvania says today’s standard of hyper-mediatized presidential campaigns started with the United States presidential election of 1840, the first in which images

A new book examines the growth and success of the Indian-American community in the United States, both Indian-born and American-born. The Other One Percent: Indians in America is a collaborative book written by Devesh Kapur, director of the Center for Advanced Study of India and a professor of political science in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

David Silverman has loved Egypt since he was a child visiting the famous New York City museums with his aunt and brother.

Crystals are defined by their repeating, symmetrical patterns and long-range order. Unlike amorphous materials, in which atoms are randomly packed together, the atoms in a crystal are arranged in a predictable way. Quasicrystals are an exotic exception to this rule.

Artificial intelligence methods developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University College London and the University of Sheffield accurately predicted the results of judicial decisions from the European Court of Hu

Two University of Pennsylvania faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine: Anita Allen, vice provost for faculty with appointments in the Law School and

Peter Decherney, a professor of cinema and media studies and English in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences, shines a spotlight on the history of Hollywood with a free online class. 

By Patrick Ammerman A new University of Pennsylvania effort is bringing genomics into high school classrooms through a free online resource. The goal is to make it easier for science teachers to incorporate the latest advances in science into their curricula.

The totality of RNA molecules in an organism at any one time is the product of a delicate dance. Genes must be “turned on,” or expressed, in order to turn DNA into RNA and then that RNA into proteins that accomplish an organism’s physiological needs. But, just as important, those RNA transcripts must be cleared away once they are no longer required. 

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price have announced the creation of the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation.