LPS News

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...

“I got my dream job because of the Master of Environmental Studies (MES) program,” beams Lauren McGrath (MES ’16), a freshwater ecologist at the Willistown Conservation Trust in Newtown Square, PA.

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 love the career I am in now. During my first class in the Master of Environmental Studies (MES) program, I read about sustainability, and the ideas behind ‘people, planet, profit,’ and my head almost exploded. I knew this was it,” shares Dom McGraw (MES ’13).

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace are at the heart of a popular summer course at Penn.

“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.