A World Without Prisons
MLK Day symposium features Angela Davis and Gina Dent.
Power to the Protest
Daniel Gillion on why protests matter.
Augmenting Reality
Will augmented reality change everything we see? A growing number of Penn alumni, staff, and faculty think so. And even as they bump up against its challenges and limitations, they’re still committed
to pulling AR further into our lives.
Göttingen, 1987
Ending the Cold War wasn’t about US (maybe).
Classics Professor, Law Alumna Receive “Genius” Grants
MacArthur Fellows Emily Wilson and sujatha baliga L’99.
Emergency Measures
1.5 Minute Lecture series highlights climate emergency.
London Summer and Shadows
Penn students abroad—and their teacher—work toward telling the stories they need to.
Remembering Penn’s “Professor of Trampology”
Benjamin Clarke Marsh was Penn’s “Professor of Trampology.”
Natural Learners
Why do kids learn language so much better than adults?
Eye of the Beholder
Neuroaesthetics Center looks at how we feel about what we see.
A Change in the Weather
CAC explores preservation in a changing climate.
Buddhist Laser Tag Is Awesome
Justin McDaniel on studying Buddhism at the water park.
Lessons from the Shatterzone
Canaries in coal mines, lands in-between.
Charles Bernstein Versus Verse
Charles Bernstein on his Bollingen Prize and retiring from Penn.
The Virality Paradox
Damon Centola thinks the contemporary wisdom about how behavior spreads is missing something fundamental—and that may be why mindless trivialities crowd out civic engagement. Can anything be done? He has an idea or two.
Expecting the Unexpected (a How-To Guide)
Kunreuther and Useem on coping with disruption.
Malicious Influence
Richard Clarke C’72 reviews Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s Cyberwar.
Family Resemblance
Mirrors and mysteries.
Strong Language
Writer-in-Residence Carmen Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties.
Beyond Labor: A Missing Piece in the Immigration Debate
Wharton study: immigrants boost investment and entrepreneurship.
Jeb Bush Nabs Presidential Professorship
Jeb Bush is a Presidential Professor of Practice for 2018–19.
Who is America?
GOP nativists have taken aim at a fundamental principle defining the American republic: birthright citizenship. Their legal rationale has an unlikely source: a liberal professor who totally opposes their aims. And that’s just where things start to get interesting with Constitutional law scholar Rogers Smith.
Wordsworth’s American Champion
Nearly two centuries ago, Penn professor Henry Hope Reed put William Wordsworth on America’s cultural map. More or less forgotten today (make that more), Reed was an impressive scholar whose enthusiasm for Wordsworth and English Romanticism helped shape the nation’s literary values.
Cret Day
Architect Paul Cret’s legacy in Philadelphia.