School of Arts & Sciences

Researchers Gain Insight Into a Physical Phenomenon That Leads to Earthquakes

Scientists have gotten better at predicting where earthquakes will occur, but they’re still in the dark about when they will strike and how devastating they will be.

Penn Announces 2017 Thouron Award Winners

Five University of Pennsylvania seniors and one alumna have received 2017 Thouron Awards to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

‘Tully Monster’ Mystery Is Far From Solved, Penn-led Group Argues

Last year, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scient

Penn’s Michael Horowitz Earns Karl Deutsch Award

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Using nanotechnology to expand health care access

A team is using commercially available nanotechnology to develop a low-cost, handheld diagnostic device that can monitor HIV. This device would increase access to high-quality treatment of HIV in developing countries and lower the cost of health care in the U.S.

Penn’s Dawn Teele Studies What Factors Lead Women to Run for Political Office

Since the 2016 election, scores of women across the nation have enlisted in political campaign training programs like Emerge America and Ready to Run.

Penn Linguists Investigate Language Borrowing in the Field and the Lab

There’s this idea in linguistics called sociolinguistic borrowing, in which one group of people adopts a feature of another group’s dialect. Usually it results from a positive association with the group that originally used the feature. But Betsy Sneller, a fifth-year Ph.D.

Penn’s Timothy Powell: Forging Partnerships to Promote Native Languages, Culture

Timothy Powell’s ethnographic research has taken him to far reaches of the world to uncover what happens when the cultural stories that Native Americans told anthropologists hundreds of years ago are returned to indigenous communities today.

Penn Researchers Are Among the First to Grow a Versatile Two-dimensional Material

University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material called tungsten ditelluride. Their findings have been published in 2-D Materials.

Penn chemists work towards controlling heat energy on a molecular level

Chemists at the University of Pennsylvania are expanding a new model that could be the first step towards better harnessing heat energy to power nanoscale devices.

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