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The Graduate Division

The Graduate Division is the home of doctoral programs in the arts and sciences at Penn, with more than 30 graduate groups spanning the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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Our graduate groups offer a rigorous education, guiding students as they pursue advanced research and begin to make their own original contributions at the frontiers of knowledge.

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Our doctoral students represent the next generation of scholars and leaders of academia, as well as experts who will apply their advanced training in a wide variety of professions.

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Arts & Sciences News

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Eleni Katifori Awarded an American Physical Society Early Career Award

The Katifori group's research seeks to uncover the physical principles behind the function and development of complex biological flow systems.

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Gabriel Raeburn Receives Dissertation Grant

The Ph.D. candidate was awarded funds by the National Institute of Social Sciences.

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Marsha I. Lester, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

Marsha Lester Named Browne Professor

Marsha I. Lester has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.

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Alums Come Together to Establish Professorship

A $1.5 million gift creates the Arifa Hasan Ahmad and Nada Al Shoaibi Presidential Professorship.

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Laurin Bixby Named Health Policy Research Scholar

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership programs connect changemakers across the country.

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Amy Offner Wins Inaugural Hunt Prize in International History

Amy Offner, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded the inaugural Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

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Grad Ben Talks

Each year, Penn Arts and Sciences presents Grad Ben Talks: an afternoon of TED Talk-style presentations by graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs. Judges select winners in each of the four categories. There is also an Audience Choice Winner selected by online votes.

Watch the winning presentations