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Lauding a transformative scholar
Penn Professor Thadious Davis Symposium group

More than 100 people attended an evening reception for the symposium in honor of Penn Professor Emeritus Thadious Davis. From left, GerShun Avilez, Salamishah Tillet, Margo Crawford, Jed Esty, Anita Allen, Davis, Barbara Savage, Herman Beavers and Dagmawi Woubshet. Photo by Scott Ellis.

Lauding a transformative scholar

Chosen for her expertise in Southern and African-American literature, author and poet Thadious Davis was one of the first professors recruited by Penn President Amy Gutmann. Davis was honored at a reception and a symposium which focused on her work exploring race, region, and gender.
Short-term effects of Daylight Saving Time
Rebecca Umbach, a fourth-year doctoral student in the department of Criminology at Penn

Rebecca Umbach, a fourth-year doctoral student in the department of Criminology

Short-term effects of Daylight Saving Time

Assaults decrease by 3 percent the Monday after the switch to Daylight Saving Time in the spring, according to research from Penn criminologists.

Michele W. Berger

Grave Gardeners program reconnects the Woodlands and Penn
Gardeners planting seeds in a greenhouse

Grave Gardeners program reconnects the Woodlands and Penn

The Woodlands Grave Gardeners program, now in its third season, pairs volunteer gardeners with the park’s cradle graves—tombstones with a bathtub-like extension—to plant them with lush flowers, as the makers had intended.

Katherine Unger Baillie

What we have here is a failure to communicate

    • What we have here is a failure to communicate

    Would you notice if someone said “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” to you mid-conversation? Research says probably not.

    Michele W. Berger

    Physicist strums string theory at Philly high school

    • Physicist strums string theory at Philly high school

    In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the universe is composed of one-dimensional cosmic strings vibrating at different frequencies. To high school students at Philadelphia Performing Arts: A String Theory Charter School in Center City, “string theory” is an allusion to the valuable effect of creativity, music, and the arts on developing minds.

    Ali Sundermier