4/22

Creating Canopy 2024

A person kneeling plants a tree as two people look on

In celebration of Earth Week, Penn Sustainability supports the greening of Greater Philadelphia by providing free trees to staff and faculty of Penn. Registration opens April 22 and pick-up is scheduled for May 9.

All Day

Various locations

Through

4/26

Earth Week 2024

Purple blooms on the verge of opening, backlit by the sun

This is a campuswide week of events, lectures, and volunteer opportunities designed to educate and inspire action related to environmental justice, climate, and nature-based solutions. This year’s theme is Restore & Regenerate.

12:00 a.m.

Various locations

4/25

Take Our Children to Work Day

A child sits at a table reading a book, two closed books are on the table beside them.

The Division of Human Resources presents Take Our Children to Work Day, recommended for children ages 9 to 14. A range of programs, like carnival games at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library and coloring with Penny the Pig at the Franklin Building, will be available.

All Day

Various locations

4/25

Excellence in Graduate Teaching Reception

Penn Grad Center brick exterior with foliage

The vice provost for education and the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation celebrate the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students. The reception will honor the 10 winners in departments ranging from Anthropology to Neuroscience.

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Penn Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk

Kristen de Groot

News Officer

Kristen de Groot covers several subject areas in the School of Arts & Sciences including Political Science, History, Economics, East Asian Languages, Germanic Languages and Literature, Russian & East European Studies, and International Studies, the Penn in Washington Program, the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, Think Tanks & Civil Societies, Penn Opinion Research & Election Studies (PORES), the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Penn Institute for Economic Research, the Center for Study of Contemporary China and Center for East Asian Studies, the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics, Fels Institute for Government, and the Center for Ethnicity Race and Immigration. She also covers Penn Global’s Research and Engagement Fund, the SNF Paideia Program, and Perry World House.

Economics professor Anne Duchene leans up against a red brick wall with her arms crossed.

Setting students up for success

Microeconomics professor Anne Duchene teaches 900 first-years every fall and spring, helping fresh-out-of-high school students lay the groundwork for tackling the challenges of college coursework.

Kristen de Groot ・January 13, 2023

Student Anya Miller stands with her hand on her hip, smiling in front of the Penn shield at Penn Commons

Who, What, Why: Anya Miller and the ‘thriftification’ of Philadelphia

Anya Miller, a fourth-year sociology major from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, took her hobby of thrift store shopping and looked at it through a socioeconomic lens.

Kristen de Groot ・January 4, 2023

One person holds a framed image of Vladimir Lenin and another holds one of Josef Stalin as others wave red flags behind them in Moscow's Revolution Square.

Soviet Union’s centenary

Experts from across Penn share their thoughts on the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Soviet Union.

Kristen de Groot ・December 21, 2022

Protesters carrying Iranian flags walk through the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which is dotted with black and white photos of Iranians allegedly killed by their government.

‘The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom’

This timely volume of essays edited by professors Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Green explores theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right.

Kristen de Groot ・December 20, 2022

Seven China scholars sit on a stage in front of an audience at Perry World house

Scholars look at ramifications from ‘zero COVID’ protests in China

The Center for the Study of Contemporary China, in co-sponsorship with Perry World House, held a forum to discuss the protests and what they mean for China and its citizens going forward.

Kristen de Groot ・December 8, 2022

Activist Nathan Law poses in front of a painting in Perry World House

Hong Kong activist Nathan Law continues the fight

The exiled activist and Perry World House Visiting Fellow discusses his current work and his thoughts on the state of democracy around the world.

Kristen de Groot ・November 29, 2022

bryan anderson-wooten in south africa

Penn Global turns 10

The hub for all things global on campus looks back at its impact over the decade and ahead to what the next 10 years of research, policy, and engagement with the world will bring.

Kristen de Groot ・November 16, 2022

Two men in suits face a large TV screen showing Pennsylvania 2022 Senate election results.

Five election takeaways

Stephanie Perry, executive director of the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies and manager for exit polls at NBC News, shares her team’s top five exit-poll analyses to help explain what happened.

Kristen de Groot ・November 9, 2022

Kenneth Roth stands in front of a wall reading Human Rights Watch and points to the audience

Kenneth Roth on the state of human rights today

Kenneth Roth is the inaugural Thakore F

Kristen de Groot ・November 9, 2022

Tulia Falleti, Melissa Teixeira, and Marilene Felinto seated at a table addressing an audience.

Brazil’s presidential election

Three experts share their thoughts on Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva’s defeat of right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and what it means for Latin America’s largest democracy.

Kristen de Groot ・November 8, 2022