"The time has come to lower the barriers that separate departments and schools. Discipline must reach across to discipline and build bridges of common understanding and shared purpose across all 12 of Penn’s schools and throughout the campus."
Penn President J. Larry Jameson
As the challenges of our time grow more complex and consequential, Penn is poised like no other to innovate and lead. Through the recruitment of faculty who cross disciplinary boundaries, Penn fosters innovation and expands the world’s knowledge in new and unanticipated ways. Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professors hold appointments in two or more schools at Penn, and draw on their breadth of knowledge to collaborate with colleagues on boundary-breaking research.
With 12 schools on one contiguous campus, our world-class faculty – especially PIK Professors – are masterful collaborators. As they pursue their path-breaking work, they bring knowledge together across disciplines and use that knowledge to illuminate some of the most fundamental issues of our time.
As part of a 26-paper package that maps the basal ganglia in single-cell detail, research co-authored by neuroscientist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Michael Platt shows how neurons change across a lifetime.
Penn Nursing’s Derek M. Griffith has co-authored a first-ever-Lancet Series dedicated to men’s health.
Researchers share their findings on fear as it relates to primal world beliefs, phobias, callous-unemotional traits in children, and persuasive messaging.
Penn’s Dirk Trauner and collaborators have developed a platform that allows opioid activity to be turned ‘on’ or ‘off’ with the flick of a light switch, paving the way for bypassing opioid addiction and other adverse side effects.
New research from Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab outlines the scientific framework used by its Media Bias Detector that breaks news coverage into measurable components, allowing researchers to study how editorial choices shape what readers see, and what they don’t.
Neuroscientist Michael Platt and molecular anthropologist Theodore Schurr trace the evolutionary roots of moving away from home—and what campuses full of newcomers mean for genes and brains.