Matt Levendusky provides political insight on factors influencing voters’ decisions. Brea Stover
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Social scientist Jere Behrman gives an inside look at his work outside the classroom. Rachel Witte and Brea Stover
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Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. echoes the past in his latest musical projects. Rachel Witte
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John Lapinski shares his insider view on the Republican presidential nomination race. Blake Cole
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Penn students discuss their summer internship experiences in India. Rachel Witte
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Young scholars explore cutting-edge research topics at this year’s Undergraduate Research Fair. Brea Stover and Rachel Witte
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Antonio Merlo riffs on Italy’s looming economic collapse. Blake Cole and Rachel Witte
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Bioethicist Jonathan Moreno discusses the battle over science in America. Rachel Witte
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Audio Slideshow: Religious studies professor Jamal Elias explores the culture of truck decoration in Pakistan. Priya Ratneshwar
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Video: Joshua Warren exposes the inner workings of sleep apnea. Blake Cole
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Political scientist Rogers Smith discusses some of the key cases the U.S. Supreme Court tackled during its 2010-2011 term. Priya Ratneshwar
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Video: Emerson Brooking investigates the similarities between ancient and modern military tactics. Blake Cole
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Larry Rome and John MacDermott introduce students to cutting-edge motion analysis technology. Three biomechanics students share their eye-opening videos below.
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In this video Q&A, Eve Troutt Powell provides a historian's perspective on the Egyptian uprising. Priya Ratneshwar
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An audio Q&A with Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History Mary Frances Berry. Blake Cole
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An audio Q&A with Political Scientist Neil Malhotra. Blake Cole
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A summer internship transports senior Suzie Connell into the thick of the Dreyfus Affair. Priya Ratneshwar
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An audio Q&A with political scientist Brendan O'Leary on his service as United Nations advisor. Peter Nichols and Christopher Abreu
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Audio Q&A with American historian Thomas Sugrue. Peter Nichols
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Douglas Jerolmack and Federico Falcini of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science discuss the catastrophic oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Peter Nichols
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Graduate student Shermin de Silva studies Asian elephants in Sri Lanka. Priya Ratneshwar and Patrick Boehmcke
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English professor Charles Bernstein publishes book of selected poems. Peter Nichols
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SAS faculty share their insights on the human brain. Priya Ratneshwar
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Geologist Doug Jerolmack and students track landscape degradation in Alaska. Peter Nichols
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College students help develop virtual museum of West Philadelphia history. Priya Ratneshwar
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Robert Aronowitz weighs in on the debate over new breast cancer
screening guidelines. Peter Nichols
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Political Science faculty consider the accomplishments of the Obama administration one year after a history-making election. Loraine Boehmcke
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Political scientist Alex Weisiger discusses the war in Afghanistan. Loraine Boehmcke
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Psychology majors conduct research on a tropical isle. Peter Nichols
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Penn medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and UC grad student Jeff Schonberg study the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco. Peter Nichols
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College senior Joshua Bennett mines the richness of spoken word poetry. Priya Ratneshwar
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Recent College graduate Oscar Benitez sheds light on the economy of Mexican business ownership in South Philadelphia. Priya Ratneshwar
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Penn psychologists identify neural correlates of visual and verbal cognitive styles. B. Davin Stengel
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A new book by historian Steven Hahn takes up the hidden history of African American politics and the politics of writing history. Peter Nichols
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Scientist Sarah Tishkoff pulls together a database of African populations—one DNA sample at a time. Peter Nichols
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Undergraduate Samantha Cox takes a new look at museum specimens using CT scan technology. Priya Ratneshwar
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Historian Kathleen Brown's new book examines the evolution of body care in early America. B. Davin Stengel
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Penn political science faculty members weigh in on the new president’s challenges and opportunities for U.S. foreign policy. B. Davin Stengel
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Undergraduate Brooke Palmieri curates exhibit about the places in which we read. Peter Nichols
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American Historian Bruce Kuklick shares his thoughts on this inaugural moment. B. Davin Stengel
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Technology Historian Nathan Ensmenger checks the pulse of the e-health revolution. B. Davin Stengel
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College of Arts and Sciences students discuss their research projects at the 2008 Family Weekend Research Poster Session. Priya Ratneshwar and Peter Nichols
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Faculty members from the Department of Political Science discuss the historical results - and significance - of the 2008 Presidential election. Read more...
Undergraduate Lavanya Madhusudan explores the connection between malnutrition and women's welfare in India. Priya Ratneshwar
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Graduate student Stephan Zink sees history rising from the ruins. B. Davin Stengel
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Political scientist Don Kettl answers questions about the candidates' experience and the challenges they face. Priya Ratneshwar
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Cosmologist Mark Devlin builds a telescope that floats to the edge of space. Read more...
Grad student Roger Turner explores the surprising connection between comic books, military training and the TV weather report. Read more...
Biologist Dorothy Cheney and psychologist Robert Seyfarth explore the intelligence underlying baboons' social organization. Read more...
Undergraduate Rebecca Sternschein traces the brain circuitry of art appreciation. Read more...
Listen to a track from Y the Q?, the debut album from music historian Guthrie Ramsey’s jazz ensemble, MusiQologY. Read more...
Biologist Dan Janzen discusses the beautiful caterpillars, butterflies and moths of the Costa Rican forests. Read more...
Undergraduate Research in the School of Arts and Sciences
Every year, Penn undergraduates carry out research projects in fields and subjects across the arts and sciences. "These are the most profound and meaningful experiences of their undergraduate days," reports College dean Dennis DeTurck. Read more...
For his Ph.D. dissertation, Jamie Bedison hiked into the Adirondack Mountains to study how pollution and global warming are affecting the forests there. Read more...