Pulteney Street Podcast
22 November 2017Sipher '83, P'19 on Russia, Truth and Intelligence
In recent articles in the New York Times and The Atlantic, John Sipher '83, P'19 discusses the dangers that Russian intelligence operations pose to the safety and security of the United States.
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17 November 2017Himmelhoch Presents on Agamemnon's Retreat in Iliad
Associate Professor of Classics Leah Himmelhoch recently presented a paper at the annual conference of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, held in New York City in early October.
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19 October 2017Racial Disparities in the Prison System
On any given day, there are roughly 1.5 million people incarcerated in adult prisons in the U.S. For many years, James Schuler was one of them.
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13 October 2017Penn Hosts Major Scientific Discovery Event
In the ongoing research to understand the origins and the nature of the universe, the detection of gravitational waves ripples in spacetime has been a pivotal discovery.
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28 September 2017First Joint Discovery of Gravitational Waves by LIGO and Virgo
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), of which Hobart and William Smith Professor of Physics Steven Penn is a prizewinning scientist, and the Virgo collaboration have reported their first joint discovery of gravitational waves.
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8 September 2017September 11 Commemoration
In remembrance of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Hobart and William Smith will continue the tradition of observing the somber day with a service starting at 9:55 a.m.
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18 August 2017Building a Bilingual Geneva
Associate Professors of Spanish and Hispanic Studies May Farnsworth and Caroline Travalia hold a plastic dinosaur before 16 children at Geneva Public Library on a summer Tuesday morning. Some students are as young as two, but they know exactly what’s going on. “¿Es esto grande o pequeño?” Farnsworth asks. “¡Grande!” the children answer back.
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