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Reinventing customary law in medieval France
Historian Ada Kuskowski listens to a speaker sitting next to her at a table.

Ada Maria Kuskowski is a medieval and legal historian. 

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  • Q&A

    • Reinventing customary law in medieval France

    A new book by historian Ada Maria Kuskowski of the School of Arts & Sciences traces the formation of customary law as a field of knowledge in medieval Europe.

    Kristen de Groot

    In support of a wilder democracy
    An American flag on a hilltop at dusk.

    Image: iStock/Richard Stephen

    In support of a wilder democracy

    A new book from political science professor Anne Norton advocates for a system that embraces self-reliance, freedom, and courage.

    From Omnia

    Creating authentic connections in virtual teams
    Five Matriarca artisans at a table sharing a laptop.

    Matriarca artisans.

    (Image: Fundación Gran Chaco)

    Creating authentic connections in virtual teams

    Working with Matriarca, an Argentinian sustainable goods distributor, scientists from the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative leveraged an exercise known as ‘Fast Friends’ to improve online collaboration within the organization.

    From Knowledge at Wharton

    Who, What, Why: Rich Lizardo on poverty in early modern Spain
    Rich Lizardo sits on concrete stairs in front of greenery on Penn campus.

    History Ph.D. candidate Rich Lizardo.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Rich Lizardo on poverty in early modern Spain

    The history Ph.D. candidate’s work traces the evolution of the ideas, institutions, and images of poverty in early modern Spain and highlights how much of the current debates on poverty echo those of the past.

    Kristen de Groot

    Cultures of the book
    four students standing next to table looking at printed materials with professor

    In the course Cultures of the Book taught by Whitney Trettien (center), assistant professor of English, students study materials in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books & Manuscripts in the Penn Libraries. 

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    Cultures of the book

    In the Cultures of the Book course taught by Whitney Trettien, assistant professor of English, students “adopt a book” they select from the Penn Libraries collection, and their research projects are published on an academic website. 
    Euclid Space Telescope launches exciting new possibilities
    Shot of Falcon 9 Rocket launching from Cape Canaveral at Kennedy Space Center

    The European Space Agency’s latest astrophysics mission, Euclid, lifted off on a Space X Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023. Euclid has now started its month-long journey to Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, located 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, in the opposite direction from the Sun.

    (Image: iStock / Robert Michaud)

    Euclid Space Telescope launches exciting new possibilities

    Professors of physics and astronomy Bhuvnesh Jain, Mark Trodden, and Gary Bernstein discuss the coming research findings from the European Space Agency’s Euclid Space Telescope.
    Sigal Ben-Porath named the faculty director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Paideia Program
    Sigal Ben-Porath

    Sigal Ben-Porath is the MRMJJ Presidential Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education with secondary appointments in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Political Science in the School of Arts & Sciences.

    (Image: Kyle Kielinski)

    Sigal Ben-Porath named the faculty director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Paideia Program

    World-renowned scholar of democratic theory and practice Sigal Ben-Porath, who has been a professor at Penn since 2004, will assume the role Sept. 1.
    Simon Richter on animating climate change
    Simon Richter on stage with a video screen with an animation behind him addressing an audience.

    Simon Richter, Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of Germanic Studies, in front of his most recent animated video, “How do the Climate Futures of Jakarta and the Netherlands Compare?” which premiered in March 2023 in Amsterdam.

    (Image: Tracy Metz)

    Simon Richter on animating climate change

    The professor of Germanic studies works with colleagues and students to create animated videos to explain the risks of climate change in the Netherlands and Jakarta.

    From Omnia

    Young voters and online civic education
    A man in a facemask uses a marker to ink the finger of a facemasked woman, as ballot containers and the Moroccan flag are seen behind them.

    A voter’s finger is inked after casting a ballot inside a polling station, in Casablanca, Morocco, during general elections on Sept. 8, 2021.

    (Image: AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

    Young voters and online civic education

    A collaborative new study by Guy Grossman of the School of Arts & Sciences and co-authors looks at the effects of low-cost online interventions in encouraging young Moroccans to turn out and cast an informed vote in the 2021 elections. 

    Kristen de Groot