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Higher education needs more Socrates and Plato
The New York Times

Higher education needs more Socrates and Plato

In an opinion essay, PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel and Harun Küçük of the School of Arts & Sciences say that higher education must reassert its classical liberal arts ideals.

Uplifting Filipino communities abroad and at home
Vernon Wells.

Vernon Wells, a fourth-year anthropology and sociology student, will build off senior thesis research on the Ayta Magbukún tribe with a Fulbright U.S. Student Award in the Philippines.

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Uplifting Filipino communities abroad and at home

Fourth-year student Vernon Wells has been working with Indigenous peoples in the Philippines, research they will expand on through a Fulbright award, while strengthening the Southeast Asian community at Penn.
Gearing up for research on aging
A group of GEAR UP members.

GEAR UP and other Summer Undergraduate Mentored Research students at the AcademyHealth’s 2023 Annual Research Meeting in Seattle.

(Image: Courtesy GEAR UP)

Gearing up for research on aging

GEAR UP, an initiative offered by the Population Aging Research Center and the Leonard Davis Institute, gives students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds hands-on experience and mentoring to address a global challenge.

Susan Ahlborn

Investigating homelessness
Jennifer Egan and Dennis Culhane sit at a long green table in front of the windows at Kelly Writers House

Jennifer Egan (left) and Dennis Culhane (right) speaking at the Kelly Writers House.

(Image: Zoe Lachter)

Investigating homelessness

In a Kelly Writers House event, writer Jennifer Egan and social scientist Dennis Culhane discuss journalism and the homelessness crisis.

Kristina García

‘Slouch’ review: The panic over posture
The Wall Street Journal

‘Slouch’ review: The panic over posture

In her new book, “Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America,” Beth Linker of the School of Arts & Sciences traces society’s posture obsession to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

The truth behind the slouching epidemic
The New Yorker

The truth behind the slouching epidemic

Beth Linker of the School of Arts & Sciences traces the history of a poor-posture epidemic in the U.S. which began at the onset of the 20th century.

How two Mass. lawyers are helping DACA recipients stay in the US
Boston Globe

How two Mass. lawyers are helping DACA recipients stay in the US

Carlos Águilar González of the School of Arts & Sciences says that streamlining the D3 authorization process for DACA recipients may limit the number of people who can benefit by focusing only on the most prestigious and educated.

The activist academy
Inside Higher Ed

The activist academy

In her book “Chasing the Intact Mind,” Amy S.F. Lutz of the School of Arts & Sciences argues that the current approach to disabilities studies marginalizes the most severely disabled.