Amanda Mott manages media relations related to the Office of the Executive Vice President which includes facilities and real estate, Penn’s Climate Action Plan, student financial services, business services, campus housing and dining, and the endowment. In addition, she covers Commencement and Penn Global including Perry World House, the Penn Wharton China Center, and the Penn Biden Center.
Amid mounting pressure from colleges and universities, including Penn, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revoked a controversial policy affecting international students with F-1 visas.
Penn submits amicus brief in support of international students with F-1 visas
The brief, signed by Penn and 58 other schools, was filed in support of the case brought last week by Harvard and MIT against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Chris Satullo, Lia Howard, and Surayya Walters in the class titled Can We Talk? (Pre-pandemic image: Eric Sucar)
Cultivating robust civil dialogue during times of unrest
Through the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program, Penn students are learning how to reflect on and engage with subjects like the coronavirus pandemic and the criminal justice system.
Professor of English and Africana Studies Herman Beavers. (Image: Omnia magazine)
Herman Beavers named faculty director of Civic House and the Civic Scholars Program
Beavers has taught at Penn since 1989 and is a professor of English and Africana studies, a distinguished poet, and a widely published scholar of 20th-century, and is a leader in the Penn community.
Howard and Nancy Marks endow the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing
The Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing at Penn Arts & Sciences is the second gift in support of writing education at Penn by Wharton alum Howard Marks and Nancy Marks.
As the pandemic moves an in-person Commencement ceremony to a future date and time, a special live online University-wide celebration on Monday, May 18, will offer up a salute to graduates, the conferral of degrees, and some surprises.
Keystone Solar, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy of Community Energy, Inc.
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Penn signs Power Purchase Agreement for largest solar project in Pennsylvania
The agreement will result in the construction in central Pennsylvania of two new solar energy facilities that combined can generate 220 megawatts of electricity.
The eight-seater chartered plane used to evacuate three Penn students from Casablanca. Photo courtesy of Valerie Chia..
Wheels on the ground: Helping to get students safely home in the midst of a pandemic
With nearly 500 Penn faculty, students, and staff already on registered travel abroad as the coronavirus began to close borders, Penn’s Global Incident Management Team is assisting hundreds with travel, emergency evacuations, and repatriations.
