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Honing writing chops on and off stage
A Penn intern at 1812 seated in the audience seats of a theater.

Trisha Bheemanathini is cognitive science and neuroscience and sociology triple-major in the College of Arts and Sciences.

(Image: Nick Seymour)

Honing writing chops on and off stage

Rising third-year Trisha Bheemanathini joins 1812 Productions in Philadelphia for a summer internship through RealArts@Penn.

Louisa Shepard

Venezuela’s disputed election and unrest
A crowd of people protesting the election in Venezuela.

Government supporters rally in defense of President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 30, 2024, two days after the disputed presidential election.

(Image: AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

  • Q&A

    • Venezuela’s disputed election and unrest

    Ángel Alvarado, a senior fellow in the Department of Economics and former Venezuelan congressman, shares his thoughts on the power struggle and ongoing crisis. 

    Kristen de Groot

    Sound research as a lens to understanding the world
    Illustration of a person wearing headphones with swirling whales and birds surrounding them.

    Image: Maggie Chiang for OMNIA

    Sound research as a lens to understanding the world

    Researchers across Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences are turning to sound for new answers to questions on subjects from birdsong to the benefits of music exposure.

    Laura Dattaro

    Drawn to ArtWell
    Natalie Cheng hanging paper artworks on a wall

    Natalie Cheng, a rising second-year student, is focusing on communications and design during a summer internship with the Philadelphia nonprofit ArtWell. She is one of two Penn interns there this year, supported by the University's Summer Humanities Internship Program. 

    (Image: Courtesy of ArtWell) 

    Drawn to ArtWell

    Drawn by their interests in art, design, and support for children in Philadelphia, two Penn students in the College of Arts and Sciences, Natalie Cheng and Aled Dillabough, are working as interns this summer at the nonprofit ArtWell.

    Louisa Shepard

    In ‘Sacred Stuff,’ students explore religion through material culture
    An ornate Anglican church with stained glass. Students stand near the pews listening to a frocked speaker.

    The Rev. Dr. Jonathan Jong welcomes Penn students to the chapel of Keble College, Oxford.

    (Image: Donovan Schaefer)

    In ‘Sacred Stuff,’ students explore religion through material culture

    In the Penn Global Seminar “Sacred Stuff” taught by religious studies professor Donovan Schaefer, students visited religious sites in England.

    Kristina Linnea García

    Studying the benefits of virtual art engagement
    "Pennsylvania Landscape" painting by Charles Sheeler.

    Charles Sheeler’s Pennsylvania Landscape (1925) was among the artworks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art that Katherine Cotter and James Pawelski included in virtual galleries for a study.

    (Image: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)

    Studying the benefits of virtual art engagement

    James Pawelski and Katherine Cotter talk to Penn Today about their research into digital art galleries.
    Does heat travel differently in tight spaces?
    Green-tinted image showing thermal plumes in a Hele-Shaw cell, illustrating heat transfer in confined spaces.

    Hugo Ulloa and Daisuke Noto of the School of Arts & Sciences have unearthed findings that address long-standing mysteries in the mechanics of fluids in confined, tight spaces: how their boundaries affect heat as it emanates from one place and dissipates throughout the space. The image above is a lab-scale hydrothermal system modeled utilizing a Hele-Shaw cell of 10 cm tall, 20 cm long and 4 mm gap. The interior of the Hele-Shaw cell is filled with degassed, deionized water heated from the bottom and cooled from above. A green laser sheet crosses the middle plane of the cell to visualize the motions of micro-scale particles seeded on the water, allowing researchers to estimate the fluid velocity and temperature.

     

     

    (Image: Courtesy of Daisuke Noto)

    Does heat travel differently in tight spaces?

    New research led by Penn scientists offers insights into fundamental problems in fluid mechanics, findings that pave the way for more efficient heat transfer in myriad systems.
    Where scientific nationalism meets tradition
    A group of Penn students looking at Japanese artifacts being presented in a museum.

    (On homepage) At Uji, a city south of Kyoto that’s famous for tea, Penn students learn from a matcha master.

    (Image: John Kehayias)

    Where scientific nationalism meets tradition

    In May, John Kehayias led a Penn Global Seminar to Japan, exploring ideas of wartime-era scientific nationalism while cultivating cross-cultural exchange.
    The economic impact of the Olympics
    Silas Ruth poses on a bench near windows.

    Silas Ruth is a rising fourth-year who is researcing the economics of the Olympic Games.

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    The economic impact of the Olympics

    Rising fourth-year Silas Ruth, an economics major, examines sports mega-events like Paris 2024 through an economic lens.

    Kristen de Groot

    Four academic journeys explored
    Vijay Balasubramanian writes equations on a whiteboard with a graduate student

    Younger scientists often ask him about exploring multiple fields, Balasubramanian says. The advice he offers is to “have a central line where you have credibility, where you’ve established that you’re really, really good at what you do, and you can be trusted.”

    (Image: Eric Sucar)

    Four academic journeys explored

    Vijay Balasubramanian and Tukufu Zuberi in the School of Arts & Sciences, Amy Hillier in the School of Social Policy & Practice, and Brittany Watson in the School of Veterinary Medicine share their academic paths toward interdisciplinary work.

    Kristina Linnea García