School of Arts & Sciences

Penn Lightbulb Café: ‘Hollywood’s Past and Present’

WHO: Peter Decherney Professor Department of English Department of Cinema Studies School of Arts & Sciences

Penn to Release Annual Global Think Tanks Ranking Report

WHAT: Release of the 2015 Global Go To Think Tanks Report and Index andPanel Discussion “Global Cities: The Philadelphia Story”

Penn Professor Robert Ghrist Brings Complicated Math to the Masses

It’s not easy to make confusing mathematics topics understandable, let alone interesting, to non-mathematicians, but University of Pennsylvania professor Robert Ghrist has figured out the formula.

Penn Junior Sophie Beren Has People Singing and Talking

Sophie Beren, a junior communications major at the University of Pennsylvania, is a natural connector.

Black Lives Matter Co-founders Headline MLK Lecture in Social Justice at Penn

WHO: Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi are two of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Two Students, Two Alumni From Penn Join Inaugural Class of Schwarzman Scholars

Two students from the University of Pennsylvania and two Penn alumni are among 111 recipients of the inaugural Schwarzman Scholarships. The award funds one year of graduate studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing for each recipient. More than 3,000 people applied for the highly competitive program.

Penn Science Café Presents ‘Friendship and Your Brain’

WHO: Michael Platt Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor James S. Riepe University Professor of Neuroscience Perelman School of Medicine

Penn President’s Engagement Prize Launches Effort to Empower Ghanaian Girls

The University of Pennsylvania President’s Engagement Prize gave Penn graduate Shadrack Frimpong the opportunity to fulfill a dream he had been imagining for years: opening a clinic and school for girls in hi

Penn Attracts International Students and Those Who Study Abroad

For international students, the University of Pennsylvania remains a destination of choice in higher education. Penn also sends a high number of American students to pursue studies abroad.

Penn Professor Deborah Thomas Named Editor-in-Chief of ‘American Anthropologist’

Deborah Thomas, an anthropology professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences, has been named editor-in-chief of the American Anthropological Association’s flagship journal,

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