Dennis DeTurck, a professor of mathematics and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, talks about why America's youth is doing so poorly in math and what can be done about it.

• Dennis DeTurck's home page
• Faculty Biography - from the School of Arts & Sciences
• Department of Mathematics

“ We're struggling to understand how 21st Century American kids learn math. ”

Peter Fader, a marketing professor in the Wharton School, discusses YouTube and its recent acquisition by Google.

“ Just as YouTube is changing the balance of power for the copyrighted material itself, it's completely changing the world of advertising. ”

Martha Farah, a Penn psychology professor, who also directs the University's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, talks about about mood enhancing drugs and their use by healthy people who want to be "better than well."

“ We don't have a fixed, immutable self despite our intuitions. ”

Donald Kettl, Director of Penn's Fels Institute of Government and an expert in public policy and public administration, talks about the future of FEMA and his recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.

• Faculty Biography - Fels Institute of Government
• "Kettl on Katrina" - Penn Current Interview, October 20, 2005
• "Donald Kettl Named Director of Fels Institute of Government at Penn" - News Release
• "On Risk and Disaster" - Penn Press

“ We've seen that really bad leadership can have have really bad consequences. ”

Nathaniel Persily, Penn Law professor and an expert on election law and voting rights, talks about how court decisions and media coverage affect public opinion on same-sex marriage.

“ From 2003 to 2005, while the issue of gay marriage was covered by the media and a certain share of Americans changed their minds, Americans became more amenable to the idea of civil unions, something less than same-sex marriage. ”