LPS News

Penn’s Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences program—which equips students to understand how individuals and groups make decisions, and how to affect those decisions—welcomed its first class of students to campus this August.

Master of Liberal Arts graduate Jonathan Singleton (‘17) helped photograph and research Japanese artifacts given to the Penn Museum by the Tokyo National Museum after the 1893 World’s Fair.

According to Marc Hummel (Master of Liberal Arts ’17), in order to understand how influential ideas spread, we have to study them like ecosystems.

"I'm looking into the mathematical models for making research reliable…What motivates me is simply wanting to help people,” shares John Sperger, a Post-Baccalaureate Studies student bound for a PhD in Biostatistics...

Howard Neukrug is making Penn a center for water resource management and research. 

A course in the Organizational Dynamics program, Global Collaboration for Sustainability: The Food-Water-Energy Nexus in Italy, recently partnered with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 

“I took Anne Farnsworth-Alvear’s class in oral histories when I was a Bachelor of Arts (BA) student at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS), and that’s where the idea for my book started,” remembers Dr. Sharon McConnell-Sidorick.

Aminata Sy, a native of Senegal, is a current international relations major and English minor in the Bachelor of Arts program at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies.

Penn’s Organizational Dynamics graduate program celebrated 40 years with a gala held on Friday, June 2nd.

“The municipality of Toms River, New Jersey has received more federal flood insurance claims paid dollars than 38 entire states, including California,” shares John Miller