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  • Arthur Ross Gallery names Emily Zimmerman as director of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs

    Zimmerman, an accomplished curator and lecturer who champions critical perspectives and community engagement, joined the Arthur Ross Gallery in 2022 as the assistant director.

    FULL STORY AT Arthur Ross Gallery

  • ‘Net of Encounters’ earns Weitzman team top spot in Venezuelan landscape architecture competition

    David Gouverneur, professor of practice in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Department of City & Regional Planning has won a competition aimed at creating a network of public spaces for the historic district of Pampatar, Margarita Island, in Venezuela.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Environmental innovations initiative: From the classroom to the real world

    The Project-Based Learning for Global Climate Justice research community allows teachers to design highly effective active learning experiences for climate education, empowering students to directly confront the crisis.

    FULL STORY AT Environmental Innovations Initiative

  • Molly Bourne elevated to ASLA Fellowship

    The lecturer in Weitzman’s Department of Landscape Architecture and principal at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects has been elevated to the Council of Fellows of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design

  • Public fails to appreciate risk of consuming raw milk, survey finds

    Fewer than half of U.S. adults know that drinking raw milk is less safe than drinking pasteurized milk and many Americans do not understand the risks of consuming raw milk, according to the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s latest health survey.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • Who should moderate social media content?

    Wharton’s Pinar Yildirim weighs in on the Supreme Court’s ruling over social media content moderation, which she says remains a contentious and unsettled issue.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton

  • Summer reading picks

    Eleven faculty and lecturers from Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences share the books they’re reading now that the academic year has wound down.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA

  • Promoting sustainability through open journals publishing at the Penn Libraries

    The International Journal for Water, Equity and Justice, an open access, digital publication of The Water Center at Penn and the Global Water Alliance, recently relaunched with a new scope, name, and digital platform, with the support of the Penn Libraries.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • New study documents racial and ethnic disparities in veterans’ experiences with VA-funded community care

    The study, from Penn LDI, finds Black and Hispanic Veterans experienced persistent disparities with VA-funded care delivered outside of the VA health system by non-VA providers, which underscores a need for better administrative processes to help all Veterans navigate community care and for focused efforts to improve Black and Hispanic Veterans’ experiences with community care.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute

  • Penn researchers will investigate link between TBI and dementia with $10M NIH grant

    The collaborative project aims to uncover the structural and biological changes caused by brain injury that leads to neurodegeneration.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News