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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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    • 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.
    Environmental conservation, justice, and gender
    Mia McElhatton.

    Mia McElhatton spent the summer working in the lab of Kok-Chor Tan, a professor in the Department of Philosophy. Her project focused on how conservationists respond to women and those who identify as women.

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    Environmental conservation, justice, and gender

    Through her Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring summer internship, Mia McElhatton explores how efforts to save the planet may disproportionately burden women.

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    Seeing disability differently
    Illustration of several people with varying fullness of body sketching.

    Image: Holly Stapleton

    Seeing disability differently

    Scholars are trying to understand—and change—how the world works for people with disabilities.

    Susan Ahlborn