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School of Arts & Sciences
2009 Winter Reading List
PHILADELPHIA – A group of students, alumni, faculty and staff of Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, has compiled a list of books that are perfect for winter reading. In alphabetical order they are:• “Breakdowns” by Art Spiegelman (2008)
“Obama and the World”: Penn Professors Discuss the Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Obama Administration
“Obama and the World”: Penn Professors Discuss the Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Obama Administration
Danny Glover to Deliver Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice at Penn Jan. 21
WHO: Danny Glover, actor, producer and humanitarianWHAT: 9th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice WHEN: 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 21WHERE: Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Zellerbach Theater, 3680 Walnut St.
Penn's Center for the Advanced Study of India Receives MacArthur Foundation Grant to Study Diasporas
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $366,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support the Center for the Advanced Study of India, CASI, which will conduct empirically based case studies of diaspora/home country interactions.
Penn Students John O'Malley and Will Son Take Top Honors in National Competition for Best Video
PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania freshmen John O'Malley and Will Son, have been selected as best-video winners in a national contest run by Facing Up, a non-partisan project exploring long-term challenges of the federal budget. They will share a cash prize of $500.
New Penn-Based Index Ranks World's Best Think Tanks, and Brookings Institution Is Tops in U.S.
PHILADELPHIA — The Brookings Institution tops the U.S. list in a first-ever ranking of the world’s best think tanks.
Penn Senior Abigail Seldin Wins Rhodes Scholarship
PHILADELPHIA –- Abigail Seldin, a student at the University of Pennsylvania and co-curator of an exhibition on the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, has been awarded a 2009 Rhodes Scholarship.
In the News
The Wall Street Journal
Suddenly there aren’t enough babies. The whole world is alarmed
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of the School of Arts & Sciences estimates that global fertility last year fell to below global replacement for the first time in human history.
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Salon.com
The world’s oceans just broke an important climate change record
Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the warming of the oceans is helping to destabilize ice shelves and fuel more powerful hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia’s Tyshawn Sorey wins Pulitzer Prize in music
Tyshawn Sorey of the School of Arts & Sciences has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in music for “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith),” a concerto for saxophone and orchestra.
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The New York Times
Jerome Rothenberg, who expanded the sphere of poetry, dies at 92
Charles Bernstein of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the late Jerome Rothenberg was the ultimate hyphenated person: a poet-critic-anthologist-translator.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
A collector donated 75,000 comic books to Penn Libraries, valued at more than $500,000
Alumnus Gary Prebula and his wife, Dawn, have donated a $500,000 collection of more than 75,000 comic books and graphic novels to Penn Libraries, featuring remarks from Sean Quimly of the Kislak Center and Jean-Christophe Cloutier of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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