School of Arts & Sciences

PHILADELPHIA — Two University of Pennsylvania professors have been named winners of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Kim Menard, Evan Lerner ・August 1, 2012

PHILADELPHIA – The Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania has released a new report, “The Rise of Social Government: An Advanced Guide and Review of Social Media’s Role in Local Government Operations,” providing hard data about the growing use of social media

Jacquie Posey, Sarah Stockton-Brown ・July 31, 2012

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania has established the Department of Africana Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences.   

Jacquie Posey July 30, 2012

PHILADELPHIA — Human diversity in Africa is greater than any place else on Earth. Differing food sources, geographies, diseases and climates offered many targets for natural selection to exert powerful forces on Africans to change and adapt to their local environments.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・July 26, 2012

PHILADELPHIA — Charles Kane of the University of Pennsylvania has been awarded a five-year,  $500,000 grant from the Simons Foundation, as part of its inaugural class of Simons Investigators

Evan Lerner ・July 26, 2012

PHILADELPHIA — Establishing protection over a swath of land seems like a good way to conserve its species and its ecosystems.

Katherine Unger Baillie ・July 25, 2012

PHILADELPHIA — In June, the North Carolina legislature attempted to block a group of local scientists’ findings about how climate change could impact the state via sea-level rise.

Evan Lerner ・July 23, 2012

As Washington scorches in record-setting heat, some Penn students are exploring hot government careers though Penn in Washington summer internships.

Jacquie Posey July 19, 2012

PHILADELPHIA – Annette Lareau has been named president-elect of the American Sociological Association.  She is the Stanley I. Sheerr Professor of Social Sciences in the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences’ sociology department.

Jacquie Posey July 17, 2012

PHIADELPHIA — Alternative energy research projects involving four faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded grants from the Energy Commercialization Institute, a translational-research partnership that draws upon several regional universities.

Evan Lerner ・July 16, 2012