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PhD alum Brandon Hedrick helps uncover the mystery of how fossils came to rest in National Geographic article

Brandon Hedrick offers two alternate possibilities on how a 120-million-year-old fossil from northeastern China appears to…

New Dinosaur’s Keen Nose Made it a Formidable Predator, EES PhD student Steve Jasinski Finds

Steven Jasinski, a doctoral student in the School of Arts & Sciences' Department of Earth and Environmental Science at…

Fast Family - Lecturer Sally Willig recalls her experience competing at the Penn Relays

Sally Willig, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 and is now a lecturer in the Penn’s Master of…

EES Students Win GSA Student Research Grants

Congratulations to PhD sutdents Emma Harrison, Rachel Valletta, and Kara Ludwig for being awarded GSA student research…

Soil Kitchen 2015

Do you wonder... what's in our soil? Join us for this free soil testing event.  Bring your dried and homogenized soil sample…

Geophysicists study creep and flow of rivers

Douglas Jerolmack, Morgane Houssais, Carlos Ortiz http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2015-03-12/latest-news/geophysicists…

Penn Senior Emma Schad Investigates the Politics of Philadelphia’s Parks

Penn Senior Emma Schad Investigates the Politics of Philadelphia’s Parks Growing up in Philadelphia, University of…

WHYY Interview - Climate change: science, politics and public opinion

Guests: Michael Mann, Irina Marinov, Naomi Oreskes New data confirms that 2014 is officially the hottest year on record,…

See Psittacosaurus Run

Graduate student Brandon Hedrick is using statistics to show how dinosaurs looked, moved, and evolved http://www.sas.upenn.…

Hear Dr. Peter Dodson, A Sip of Science Honoree, on WHYY - 11/12/2014

Dr. Peter Dodson, A Sip of Science honoree, was featured on WHYY's Radio Times talking about recent dinosaur discoveries. …