School of Arts & Sciences

Penn Science Café: Squid Camouflage

WHO: Alison Sweeney Assistant Professor of Physics

Five Penn Faculty Earn Distinction as AAAS Fellows

Five faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Penn Alumna Meghan Hussey Awarded George J. Mitchell Scholarship

Meghan Hussey, a 2012 University of Pennsylvania graduate, is one of 12 Americans selected to receive a George J. Mitchell Scholarship for graduate studies in Ireland or Northern Ireland.

Penn Researchers Examine History, Beliefs and Rituals Tied to Ghosts

A group of scholars at the University of Pennsylvania is actively engaged in the scholarly examination of the history of beliefs in ghosts and the phenomenon of ghost hunting.

Student-Athlete at Penn Soars Over Life’s Biggest Hurdles

Eliana Yankelev doesn’t let life’s biggest obstacles get in her way.A member of the track and field team at the University of Pennsylvania, the 20-year-old sophomore competes in sprints, hurdles and the long jump.

Penn’s Fels Institute Publishes Dwight Evans’ Book, Hosts Nov. 22 Book Signing

WHO: Dwight Evans

Penn Produces Graphene Nanoribbons With Nanopores for Fast DNA Sequencing

The instructions for building all of the body’s proteins are contained in a person’s DNA, a string of chemicals that, if unwound and strung end to end, would form a sentence 3 billion letters long.

Four Penn Students Named Emerging Leaders in Science and Society Fellows

Four University of Pennsylvania graduate students have been named to the inaugural class of Emerging Leaders in Science and Society Fellows. ELISS is sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Evolution Can Select for Evolvability, Penn Biologists Find

Evolution does not operate with a goal in mind; it does not have foresight. But organisms that have a greater capacity to evolve may fare better in rapidly changing environments. This raises the question: does evolution favor characteristics that increase a species’ ability to evolve?

Vagelos Gift Ensures Penn's Leadership in Energy Research

With a gift of $15 million, University of Pennsylvania trustee emeritus P. Roy Vagelos, C’50, Hon’99, and his wife, Diana, parents ’90, are continuing to ensure Penn’s leadership in energy research by endowing two professorships dedicated to this critically important field.

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