A podcast series that explores scientific ideas that cause big reactions. In season 3, Fear and Loathing and Science, we’ll look at stories of science getting knocked around, and standing back up again, in a world full of polarization, politics, misrepresentation, and simple misunderstanding.

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Plants are already showing the impact of human-induced climate change: they’re flowering earlier, shifting their growing range, and climbing mountains, all the while saving us from even greater climate-change impacts. Join us on October 19 as Professors Brenda Casper and Brent Helliker discuss these changes. 

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At the close of the Power of Penn Arts & Sciences Campaign, we are bolder and bigger, with a diverse, curious student body and a dynamic faculty engaged in research and knowledge-building.

Explore the campaign's impact

Political science faculty will discuss the historical and contemporary challenges voters face and how those challenges will impact the nation's political processes. 

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