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Engineering changemakers: Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton
Cora ingrum and Donna Hampton stand beside portraits in their likeness.

Image: Courtesy of Penn Engineering

Engineering changemakers: Honoring Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton

Sharing a legacy of leadership and decades of service in Penn Engineering’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Cora Ingrum and Donna Hampton had a transformative impact on academic life at the school.
Amy Paeth on the ‘poetry industrial complex’
Book cover for The American Poet Laureate at left, Amy Paeth at right.

Image: Courtesy of Amy Paeth/OMNIA

Amy Paeth on the ‘poetry industrial complex’

In her new book, the lecturer in critical writing in the School of Arts & Sciences uses the history of the U.S. poet laureate as a window into how the arts, government, industry, and private donors interact and shape culture.

Susan Ahlborn

A historian’s look at the ‘illusions of progress’
Man in laborer clothes holds shovel, smokes a pipe and looks at his paycheck by a sign reading "USA Work Program WPA"

A Works Progress Administration worker receives his paycheck, 1939.

(Image: Courtesy of the National Archives)

A historian’s look at the ‘illusions of progress’

A new book by historian Brent Cebul looks at the successes and failures of American liberalism, from the New Deal to the 1990s and beyond.

Kristen de Groot

A question of neutrality: Switzerland’s role in 19th-century imperialism
Penn rising fourth-year Sophie Mwaisela stands in front of a brick archway with her arms crossed.

Sophie Mwaisela is a rising fourth-year in the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in history.

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A question of neutrality: Switzerland’s role in 19th-century imperialism

History undergraduate Sophie Mwaisela traveled to Geneva this summer to conduct research for her honors thesis.

Kristen de Groot

Disability in America
Judy Heumann is applauded during her swearing-in as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Service in 1993.

Judy Heumann, center, is applauded during her swearing-in as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Service by Judge Gail Bereola, left, in Berkeley, California, on June 29, 1993. At left is Berkeley Mayor Loni Hancock with sign language interpreter Joseph Quinn, and Julie Weissman, right, in attendance. Heumann, a renowned disability rights activist who helped secure legislation protecting the rights of disabled people, died on March 4, 2023.

(Image: AP Photo/Susan Ragan)

  • Q&A

    • Disability in America

    In a Q&A, history and sociology of science professor Beth Linker discusses the history of disability in America.

    Kristina Linnea García