School of Arts & Sciences

Penn Professor Part of Committee Investigating Defense Challenges for Nonproliferation Beyond Former U.S.S.R.

Penn Museum to Open "Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya"

Penn Research Team Tests Bedside Monitoring of Brain Blood Flow and Metabolism in Stroke Victims

PHILADELPHIA – A University of Pennsylvania team has completed the first successful demonstration of a noninvasive optical device to monitor cerebral blood flow in patients with acute stroke, a leading cause of disability and death.

Penn Evolutionary Biologist and Computer Scientist Awarded Sloan Research Fellowships

PHILADELPHIA -– Joshua Plotkin, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and Steve Zdancewic, associate professor of computer and information science at Penn, have been named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows for 2009.

A Conversation with Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust Survivor, on Live Videoconference March 2 at Penn

University of Pennsylvania Hosts Gender and Sexuality Studies State of the Field Conference

WHO: Gayle Rubin (keynote speaker), assistant professor of anthropology and women's studies at the University of Michigan, and more than 30 key figures in gender and sexuality studies WHAT: “Rethinking Sex, Gender and Sexuality Studies” State of the Field ConferenceWHERE: University of Pennsylvania campusWHEN: March 4–6, 2009

Penn Opens Center for Particle Cosmology to Study Early Nature of the Universe

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World Health Organization Chair to Deliver Inaugural Address at Penn's Positive Health Lecture Series

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Penn Alum to Discuss Life Aboard Space Station

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