News from

School of Arts & Sciences

Visit the School's Site
Reset All Filters
3699 Results
What it’s like to be stationed at a particle accelerator
Inside the particle accelerator.

A photo from the installation of the detector. The large silver and orange striped tubes are the solenoid magnet, which is the largest toroidal magnet ever constructed. It provides a magnetic field of up to 3.5 Tesla. Now that Run 3 has started, the magnet is on even when we researchers are working underground, so they are required to use non-magnetic tools. (Image: Courtesy of Gwen Gardner and Lauren Osojnak)

What it’s like to be stationed at a particle accelerator

Gwen Gardner and Lauren Osojnak, Ph.D. candidates in physics, describe their work as part of the Penn ATLAS team at the Large Hadron Collider.

Blake Cole

Iran protests, explained
Protesters and cars jam a street in Tehran, Iran.

On Sept. 21, 2022, a crowd chanted slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran. Iranians saw their access to Instagram, one of the few Western social media platforms still available in the country, disrupted on Wednesday following days of the mass protests. (Image: AP Photo)

  • Q&A

    • Iran protests, explained

    Historian Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, an expert on modern Iran and gender in the School of Arts & Sciences, discusses what sparked the protests and why they’re important.

    Kristen de Groot

    Listen on repeat: Exploring medieval refrain songs
    Mary Channen Caldwell and the cover of her book titled Devotional Refrain in Medieval Latin Song.

    Listen on repeat: Exploring medieval refrain songs

    Music professor Mary Channen Caldwell brings together over 400 devotional Latin refrain songs from the Middle Ages in her new book, the first to explore the medieval refrain in song outside of vernacular contexts.

    From Omnia

    Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean
    Antonia M. Villarruel addresses the audience while Emily Hannum, Tulia Falleti, and LaShawn Jefferson look on. A sign behind the group reads: Perry World House.

    From left to right: Antonia M. Villarruel, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at Penn Nursing, Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education and Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, Tulia Falleti, director of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, and LaShawn Jefferson, executive director of Perry World House, at the conference opening plenary.

    Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean

    This year’s Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean conference hosted by Perry World House focused on the theme of “Shared Narratives: Arts, Culture and Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

    Kristina García

    Bolstering environmental education in Cobbs Creek
    A group of students working on a project at Cobbs Creek.

    Bolstering environmental education in Cobbs Creek

    Through a Projects for Progress award and other University support, students in West Philadelphia are gaining greater access to STEM learning resources at the Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Environment influences coral’s resilience to acidification
    Postdoc Kristen Brown diving in the reef to obtain samples

    Postdoctoral researcher Kristen Brown (above) collected coral samples from a reef slope to see how they fared in acidic conditions. (Image: Courtesy of Kristen Brown)

    Environment influences coral’s resilience to acidification

    Ocean acidification is an effect of climate change that threatens the health of coral. A new study examines how coral samples from the Great Barrier Reef fare in acidic conditions.

    Marilyn Perkins

    ‘Paths to Freedom’: A new exhibit by John E. Dowell
    Artist John Dowell stands in the gallery with his artworks behind him surrounded by several people.

    About 100 people, including several Penn faculty, attended the opening of the "Paths to Freedom" exhibition of work by artist John E. Dowell (center).

    ‘Paths to Freedom’: A new exhibit by John E. Dowell

    In a new Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition, Philadelphia artist John E. Dowell imagines attempted escapes by enslaved ancestors through his photographs of North Carolina cotton fields at night. “Paths to Freedom” includes 26 artworks, an installation of fabric panels, and a soundscape.
    Russia ramps up war effort as Ukraine makes gains
    Five people sit in chairs on a stage at Perry World House

    A recent panel at Perry World House looked at the war in Ukraine, seven months in. (Image: Courtesy of Perry World House).

    Russia ramps up war effort as Ukraine makes gains

    Perry World House hosted a panel of experts to discuss the state of Ukraine after seven months of conflict, looking at how international support can be most effective.

    Kristen de Groot

    What beliefs shape our minds?
    Psychologist Jer Clifton sits on the steps of his office

    Jer Clifton is a senior research scientist in the Positive Psychology Center in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn. There, he directs The Primals Project, which promotes empirical research on the origins and psychological impact of primal world beliefs.

    What beliefs shape our minds?

    Jer Clifton of the Positive Psychology Center developed a framework to study primal world beliefs, our most fundamental sentiments about the world as a whole. Now, he’s ready for everyone to discover what their primal world beliefs are.

    Marilyn Perkins

    Undergraduate research on display
    rows of posters on easels with groups of people around them in a historic hall
  • By the Numbers

    • Undergraduate research on display

    Showcasing undergraduate student research with Penn faculty, a record 361 posters were on display with students presenting their work at the Fall Research Expo sponsored by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships in Houston Hall.