LPS News

Through the Warrior-Scholar Project, college-bound military personnel completed a weeklong academic “military to college” course at Penn.

Landscape planner and Master of Environmental Studies student Chloe Cerwinka is using scientific rigor to make campus a safe haven for the area’s feathered friends.

Johanna Rosen (MES ’13) founded Mill Creek Farm, a nonprofit educational farm in the heart of Philadelphia. Now she helps other farmers secure affordable land.

On Sunday, May 13, Penn’s College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) honored the graduating Class of 2018.

Read how Tom Brightman (MES ’10), Longwood Garden's Land Stewardship Manager, is taking the lead on green initiatives and endeavors in sustainability.

Tom Stanley shares his experience in the anthropology course Cultural Heritage and Conflict—and the students’ task to secure museum materials during an emergency drill. 

John Paul Hagan, a 2016 graduate, majored in psychology and plans to study topics related to normative judgment and decision-making, an interdisciplinary field that bridges psychology, philosophy and policy.

Rashida designed her MLA experience around an intersection of academic and personal interests: gender studies, sexuality, art history, race and identity theory, and body and fat studies.

The College of Liberal and Professional Studies, together with LPS’ professional graduate student association LPS gov and Women’s Campaign International, sponsored a panel discussion at Penn Law on Friday, March 16.

“Penn’s Master of Environmental Studies (MES) helped me realize that I am a big picture kind of person. In the classroom and out in the field, I often asked myself, ‘How do we get people where they need to be to fix a problem?’” shares Hilary Leifsen (MES ’16).