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.
Film for Social Change
Penn students from a variety of disciplines are learning the essentials of film storytelling and production while helping to give a voice to marginalized people and communities, from Philadelphia’s high schools to a refugee settlement in Kenya to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
Three Music Masters
Masters of music, 1977.
Racial Rapport 101
GSE’s Howard Stevenson on teaching racial literacy.
The Philosophical Composer
In the year of his centenary, a look back at the music and thought of American composer and Penn faculty member George Rochberg G’49, who first embraced 12-tone music and serialism and later rejected avant-garde styles as a form of “self-extinction.”