PENN GRAD TALKS
Penn Grad Talks (formerly known as Grad Ben Talks) features TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s programs.
Learn more about the finalists here
Can’t make it? Watch the Livestream below
2025
-
Revenge of the Bionic Beetroot: Conquering Shyness with Optimism (video)
-
The Gender Gap in Political Tolerance: Explaining Women’s Attitudes Toward Free Expression (video)
-
Crowdfunding in Ancient Greece (video)
-
When High Notes Challenge Speech: What Opera Singers Teach Us About Language (video)
-
How To Know What You Don’t Know (video)
2024
-
Three Stories every Student Needs to Tell (video)
-
A Picture Worth a Thousand Words: The Effects of Murals on Crime (video)
-
All My Friends Are Dead: Time, Emotion, and Form in Early Islamic Poetry (video)
-
Pain in the Brain (video)
-
Planet X: Can Gravity Solve a Mystery of the Deep Solar System (video)
Previous Winners
2023
-
The Battle for Africa’s Sporting Heart: Can Basketball Overtake Football’s Popularity? (video)
-
Racial Policy and Agenda Instability: Measuring Legislative Attention to Race (video)
-
Aging Virtuously: Cicero on Old Age, Disability, and Character (video)
-
From Zero to Five Thousand: The Current Census of Exoplanets (video)
-
Savoring the Shared Life: Strengthening Marriages Through Collaborative Legacy Writing (video)
2022
-
Witnessing Circularity: Circular Economy Lessons from Amsterdam (video)
-
Harvesting Heritage: The United Fruit Company and Corporate Labor in 20th-Century Archaeological Science (video)
-
Black Like Us: African American Encounters With Soviet Central Asia (video)
-
Deadbeat Dinoflagellates: Symbiotic Cooperation Breaks Down After Coral Bleaching (video)
-
Web 3.0: Embracing the Future of Internet Technologies on the African Continent (video)
2021
-
My Soul Is Anchored: How African American Women Have Carried Elections and the Political Movement Forward, and How We Can Take Our Power Back (video)
-
The New Girls' Club: Political Party Culture and the Women Changing the Face of Politics (video)
-
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)
-
Goo Goo Ga Ga: Can Baby Sounds Help Improve Early Detection of Autism? (video)
-
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)
2020
-
My Soul Is Anchored: How African American Women Have Carried Elections and the Political Movement Forward, and How We Can Take Our Power Back (video)
-
The New Girls' Club: Political Party Culture and the Women Changing the Face of Politics (video)
-
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)
-
Goo Goo Ga Ga: Can Baby Sounds Help Improve Early Detection of Autism? (video)
-
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)
2019
-
My Soul Is Anchored: How African American Women Have Carried Elections and the Political Movement Forward, and How We Can Take Our Power Back (video)
-
The New Girls' Club: Political Party Culture and the Women Changing the Face of Politics (video)
-
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)
-
Goo Goo Ga Ga: Can Baby Sounds Help Improve Early Detection of Autism? (video)
-
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)
2018
-
My Soul Is Anchored: How African American Women Have Carried Elections and the Political Movement Forward, and How We Can Take Our Power Back (video)
-
The New Girls' Club: Political Party Culture and the Women Changing the Face of Politics (video)
-
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)
-
Goo Goo Ga Ga: Can Baby Sounds Help Improve Early Detection of Autism? (video)
-
Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS): Challenges to Identity, Agency, and Belonging (video)