LPS News

One Master of Environmental Studies student dives into the burgeoning offshore wind industry.

LPS Bachelor of Arts student experiences once-in-a-lifetime filmmaking opportunity in a Kenyan refugee camp.

Dr. Sally Willig, a lecturer and advisor in the Master of Environmental Studies (MES) program, recently brought her students on a kayak tour to explore a freshwater tidal marsh in southern New Jersey as part of her wetlands course.

Master of Environmental Studies’Lisa Kiziuk introduces Penn and the region to the future of bird conservation with the Motus Wildlife Tracking System.

“I get to do work that makes the world a better place just by working at TerraCycle,” shares Maame Mensah (Master of Environmental Studies ’11), the US Account Director of Brand Partnerships at TerraCycle.

Penn’s Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences program—which equips students to understand how individuals and groups make decisions, and how to affect those decisions—welcomed its first class of students to campus this August.

Master of Liberal Arts graduate Jonathan Singleton (‘17) helped photograph and research Japanese artifacts given to the Penn Museum by the Tokyo National Museum after the 1893 World’s Fair.

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.