School of Arts & Sciences

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.

Penn Student Mentors High School Entrepreneurs in West Philadelphia

Three years ago, when, as a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania, Winfred Rembert III promised himself that he’d make time to volunteer, he had no idea that promise would lead to him to marketing breakfast bars.

Penn’s Annual Physics Demonstration Show Engages High School Students in Science

On Jan. 10, about 250 Philadelphia area high school students filled a lecture hall to watch the 20th Annual Physics Demonstration Show at the University of Pennsylvania.

First-generation Penn Student David Thai Hones Leadership Skills

Junior David Thai, a first-generation student at the University of Pennsylvania, is used to working hard, taking responsibility and navigating disappointment and change.

Women will compete against self, not others, to improve performance

A woman is less likely to choose competition than a man, even when she performs equally well, unless competing with herself for a better outcome, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania, George Mason University and the German Institute for Economic Research or DIW.

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