Karen Brooks

Haverford Magazine • 7th December 2023

Exploring the Biology of Adversity

A Q&A with Michelle Albert, past president of the American Heart Association, the Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor in Medicine at UCSF, and admissions dean for UCSF Medical School.

Haverford Magazine • 7th August 2023

Training Dogs—and Their Humans, Too

Kim Wegel tells us about her work as a canine behavior consultant.

Omnia - Penn Arts & Sciences • 24th July 2023

Silver Screen Time

Faryn Pearl discusses co-directing the DreamWorks Animation film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.

Haverford Magazine • 3rd January 2023

A New Take on Maternity Fashion With Storq

Following trends is not a priority for Courtney Klein, who founded her company to fill a void in maternity fashion: practical, timeless, versatile styles that fit pregnant bodies comfortably without being shapeless and dowdy.

Omnia - Penn Arts & Sciences • 25th August 2022

Q&A: Church, State, and Today’s Supreme Court

Gabriel Raeburn, Dean’s Teaching Fellow for Excellence in Religious Studies at Penn, highlights religion’s role in recent blockbuster rulings.

Penn Medicine Magazine • 16th March 2021

Filtering Bias Out of Kidney Testing

Nwamaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, on advancing health equity and removing race from assessment of renal function.

Omnia - Penn Arts & Sciences • 27th January 2021

Polarization and Policymaking

Political Science Professor Matthew Levendusky on how hyperpartisanship interferes with democracy.

Omnia - Penn Arts & Sciences • 3rd December 2020

Is Demography Destiny?

Political Science Professor Michael Jones-Correa discusses Latino voters’ complex role in the U.S. electorate.

Omnia - Penn Arts & Sciences • 16th January 2020

Capital Constraints

A new book by Amy Offner, Assistant Professor of History, traces the roots of neoliberalism to mid-century development in Latin America.

Omnia - Penn Arts & Sciences • 25th February 2019

Exploring the Unseen (Audio)

Physics professors Mark Trodden and Masao Sako both explore the universe—but they do so from different, complementary approaches. Here, they explain how dark matter and dark energy shape their work.

Omnia - Penn Arts & Sciences • 21st May 2018

A Movement for Gender Equity in Academia

When exploring possibilities for her senior-year independent study project, history major Kristen Ierardi sought a topic that combined two of her primary interests: women’s rights and oral histories.

Omnia - Penn Arts & Sciences • 11th April 2018

Portrait of a Villain

Mariah Junglan Min, a Ph.D. candidate in English, developed a fascination with Judas in her youth and felt unsatisfied by the scant detail she could find about the Bible’s most infamous sinner.

Haverford Magazine • 23rd January 2018

At Home (and Work) in Nature

Dan Barringer oversees the 621-acre Crow’s Nest Preserve in Chester County, Pa.

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin • 18th November 2016

A Keen Eye for Aspiring Physicians

If you enrolled at Sidney Kimmel Medical College during the past 17 years, Clara Callahan had something to do with it.

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin • 20th May 2016

Healing with Words

Salman Akhtar decided on his epitaph long ago: “This man shall write no more books.”

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin • 24th August 2012

Teaching Off the Grid

Dozens of tourists are trekking through Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains when a storm blows in. Lightning strikes, and chaos erupts. One person goes into cardiac arrest. Another ruptures an ear drum. A third experiences major head trauma. And the closest hospital is 50 miles away. Elisabeth Edelstein knows what to do.