School of Arts & Sciences

‘Being and Learning in a Digital Age’ at Penn Examines Online Learning

As higher education institutions wrestle with the future of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the University of Pennsylvania will host the third annual conference focused on online learning, Oct. 6-7.

Studying a Salt-loving Microbe, Penn Senior Evan Yang Imagines Life on Mars

By Niharika Gupta and Katherine Unger Baillie NASA's long search for life on Mars came to a thrilling turning point with the recent discovery of liquid water on the planet. One undergraduate researcher at Penn aims to understand how microbial life could thrive in such extreme, even extraterrestrial environments.

Penn Biologists Reveal How Sleep Deprivation Harms Memory

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and University of Groningen have discovered a piece in the puzzle of how sleep deprivation negatively affects memory.

Penn Rising Senior Sarah Eisler Explores Children’s Book Publishing and New York City

Through a University of Pennsylvania internship, rising senior Sarah Eisler honed her skills and learned more about the children’s book publishing industry. Eisler spent eight weeks as an intern at Downtown Bookworks in New York City.

Penn: Stigma of Record Stays with Individual, Regardless of Crime Type, Conviction

What collateral damage comes from having a criminal record?

Diplomacy and Policy Council Offers Fellowships for Students at Penn

Undergraduate students at the University of Pennsylvania are becoming diplomats-in-training who develop innovative policy through a non-partisan organization, the Penn Diplomacy and Policy Council.

People Prefer Explanations That Refer to a More Fundamental Science, Penn Study Says

By Patrick Ammerman Why do some science news stories catch our eye, even if they use exaggerated, irrelevant or inaccurate information?

Junior Jackie Askins Helps Coordinate Penn’s New Student Orientation

Junior Jackie Askins remembers the important role of New Student Orientation activities in helping her acclimate to life at the University of Pennsylvania.

Exploring and Connecting Through the Penn Reading Project

When incoming freshman at the University of Pennsylvania are introduced to academic life through the Penn Reading Project this summer, the content of the material won’t be a book but a movie, “Citizen Kane.”

Penn Philosophy Grad Student Studies Morality, Social Norms

Try this thought experiment from the world of philosophy. Imagine a train moving quickly down a track. On its current route, call it Path A, five people stand fixed in place; in another direction, Path B, one immoveable individual waits. A single flip of a switch, at which you happen to be standing, shifts the train’s direction from Path A to B, saving five people but dooming one.

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