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Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions
Jacqueline Wallis and two students at Philosophy Club.

Fourth-year Ph.D. student Jacqueline Wallis, middle, facilitated an exercise during Philosophy Club after school at the Academy at Palumbo, with high school students Leila Salama, left, and Marty Signes, right.

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Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions

Ph.D. students Jacqueline Wallis and Afton Greco are embedded at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia, where they give philosophy lessons on curriculum-relevant topics and run an after-school Philosophy Club.
Exploring the role of science communication in democracy
Vanessa Schipani teaches class.

Vanessa Schipani provides an op-ed writing tutorial during her Science Communication in Democracy course.

Exploring the role of science communication in democracy

Philosophy Ph.D. student Vanessa Schipani taught the SNF Paideia course Science Communication in Democracy, based on her dissertation research.
Life advice from Aristotle
Fresco titled “The School of Aristotle”

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Life advice from Aristotle

A new book by Philosophy’s Susan Sauvé Meyer gives tips from the philosopher’s “Nicomachean Ethics” on how to live well in any age.

Susan Ahlborn

The philosophy of pregnancy
Maja Sidzińska.

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  • Q&A

    • The philosophy of pregnancy

    Fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Maja Sidzińska is working to fill a gap in philosophy of science scholarship about what individuality means.
    Teaching Aristotle and modern moral philosophy
    Sukaina Hirji poses outside Cohen Hall.

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    Teaching Aristotle and modern moral philosophy

    Philosophy professor Sukaina Hirji has expanded her work from Aristotle and the history of philosophy to contemporary issues of love and sex, oppression, and anger.
    Social ecology and community work in the Galápagos
    students studying the galapagos, sitting on waterfront

    (On homepage) On a Penn Global Research Institutes outing to Tortuga Bay, students and Penn Global’s Laurie Jensen sit on rocks in a lava field overlooking a hypersaline pool.

    (Image: Michael Weisberg)

    Social ecology and community work in the Galápagos

    Undergraduate and graduate students spent two months on San Cristóbal Island this summer, doing research on antibacterial resistance, vectors of disease, climate change adaptation, and the impact of climate change on mental health.