Multimedia

Reading the Forest

"When I was 10 years old, I started rearing butterflies from caterpillars in Minnesota," says biologist Dan Janzen, "but my more adult interests came from realizing suddenly that I was standing in the middle of a huge unknown." Janzen, an expert on caterpillars of the Costa Rican forests, has spent more than 35 years at the frontiers of that unknown. Together with Jeffrey Miller, an insect ecologist and photographer at Oregon State, and research associate Winnie Hallwachs, he has published two books: 100 Caterpillars and 100 Butterflies and Moths (Harvard 2006 and 2007). With full-page photos and lay-reader friendly text, the books are "an expression of art as well as a demonstration of science."

Recent

Spreading Their Wings: Undergraduate Research in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Into the Wild. For his Ph.D. dissertation, Jamie Bedison hiked into the Adirondack Mountains to study how pollution and global warming are affecting the forests there.

Remembering New Orleans: Two Years after Hurricane Katrina, Students from the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program Continue to Help New Orleans Recover.

Series

60-Second Lectures
Every spring and fall, SAS faculty take a minute out on Locust Walk to share their perspectives on topics ranging from human history and the knowable universe, to fractions and fly-fishing.

Dean's Forum
The Levin Family Dean's Forum Lecture offers the University community and the general public the opportunity to meet with leading intellectual figures who exemplify the liberal arts tradition.

SAS Frontiers
This monthly online magazine features articles and exciting multimedia content on the research and creative accomplishments of SAS faculty and students.

Penn Back Then
Alumni from all decades contribute their notable anecdotes and remembrances to this continuing oral history project.