Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Fabio Finotti, a professor of Italian studies at Penn, says one can find everything in the writings of Dante Alighieri, from science and sculpture to music and sex.

WHO:             Daud Ali                       Associate Professor                       Department of South Asia Studies

The world is warming and migratory flight patterns are changing. Scientists at central Pennsylvania’s Hawk Mountain Sanctuary recently concluded a 15-year study on the critical relationship between these two facts—and an artist is among the first to present these findings to the public.

Children of Abraham: Abbas at University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery November 21, 2015 – March 20, 2016

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann today announced the launch of the President’s Innovation Prize, a competitively awarded annual prize aimed at building on the University’s culture of innovation and entrepreneurship while underscoring the high priority that Penn places on ed

Barely one minute into his Penn Lightbulb Café talk on “The Anatomy of Violence,” University of Pennsylvania professor Adrian Raine pointed to a slide projected on the screen behind him that showed the cracked skull of a 19th–century railroad worker Phineas Gage, alongside a sepia-colored image of the maimed man.

“Preach!” is a common refrain heard among audience members when Tukufu Zuberi gives a public talk. “Preach,” someone will say in affirmation when he speaks passionately about Africa’s central role in world affairs or rails against racism. The University of Pennsylvania professor of sociology and Africana studies is a public intellectual who extends his teaching around the world across multi-media platforms.

Katharyn Hanson stood on stage at the World Café Live in Philadelphia in front of a crowd of several dozen. Behind her flashed images of antiquities and artifacts that make up much of the cultural legacy in places like Syria and Iraq.

Katharyn Hanson stands on stage at the World Café Live in Philadelphia in front of a crowd of several dozen. Behind her flash images of antiquities and artifacts that make up much of the cultural legacy in places like Syria and Iraq. Sprinkled throughout are photos of explosions, dark gray plumes masking former heritage sites.

Demographers Samuel Preston of the University of Pennsylvania and Andrew Stokes of Boston University set out to solve a puzzle: Why is it that study after study shows obese or overweight people with cardiovascular disease outliving their normal