In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
For the past four years, alumna Amneris Rasuk has taught at In-Tech Academy, a public middle and high school in the Bronx. For her architecture class, of which students receive college credit, Rasuk has created a yearlong program that she describes as “geometry in architecture.” But funding for proper tools—especially those used to draft—is few and far between.
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Penn Medicine’s L. Scott Levin, the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery, chairman of the department of Orthopedic Surgery, and a professor of plastic surgery. He will serve in this role through 2019.
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The Center for Minority Serving Institutions’ (CMSI) gift comes from donations from Intel, HP, Apple, Pinterest, and Samsung, in support of its effort to diversify industry and senior leadership.
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A summer research seminar by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities allowed students to conduct research on Philadelphia's waterways and collaborate with community partners.
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Chidi, a cinema and Africana studies major in the Class of 2020, made the film Shattering Refuge, which explores the depictions of refugees and displaced peoples in the media, which won the Rough Cut Film Festival’s prestigious Social Justice Award.
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Wharton's John Paul MacDuffie discusses the GM and Chrysler $80 billion bailouts in 2009, and whether the consequences of the free market or the government should have determined the future of a failing company with 3 million of jobs at risk.
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Thirty teachers from ABEA will launch a version of the Virtual Online Learning and Teaching Certificate Program, beginning with an intensive training session, virtual one-on-one training, and in-person instruction in Mumbai.
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Experts at Wharton point to evidence that the decade-long period of economic recovery is at risk: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lack the reserves to weather another crisis, a round of mortgage defaults may be looming, and regulatory oversight have weakened under the Trump administration.
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A new partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Pennsylvania Teaching Fellowship will allow Fellows to receive a stipend, training and mentoring in a three-year program, supported by the William Penn Foundation and the Weiss Family Foundation, to prepare and support STEM teachers working in high-needs urban and rural schools.
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The University of Pennsylvania sprint football team welcomed back alums from years past to the annual alumni game on Saturday to kick off its 2018 season.
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