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  • Bill Manning named head women’s rowing coach at Penn

    Manning served as a high performance coach at Penn AC on Boathouse Row and as a senior national team coach with US Rowing, and spent 23 years as a coach at both Princeton and Harvard.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Athletics

  • Featured Books and DVDs: Learn fun facts and serious history about our beloved city

    Learn about Philly’s rich history and explore how it has shaped the city’s distinct identity with this month’s featured titles.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • Chemist Eric Schelter wins 2024 Cottrell SEED Award

    The Hirschmann-Makineni Professor of Chemistry is one of 11 researchers selected by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement to receive its Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Awards for 2024. Shelter’s award is for New Research Directions, which supports innovative research projects with potential to lead to a transformative line of inquiry.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences

  • ‘The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media’

    The paper, co-written by Shawn Patterson Jr. at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, demonstrates that the image Trump cultivated as the host of that show increased his vote share in the 2016 Republican primary—and that “apolitical” entertainment media can have important political consequences.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center

  • Fellowship for Penn Nursing’s Deborah Becker

    Becker, practice professor of nursing in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, has been selected as a Fellow in the National League for Nursing Academy of Nursing Education.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Water Center announces first annual Student Water Innovation Award

    The Water Center is soliciting applications focused on innovation in the areas of water reuse, PFAS, nature-based solutions to urban water challenges, and energy efficiency in water production and treatment through Sept. 30, 2024.

    FULL STORY AT The Water Center

  • Penn Nursing launches new online nursing and health care leadership master’s program

    The program combines the curriculum of the Nursing and Healthcare Administration and Health Leadership Master’s programs beginning in the summer of 2025.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News

  • Explore beyond collections with Music in the Stacks

    Music in the Stacks is a student-performer-centered concert series hosted in the Penn Libraries and run by the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library and Penn’s Music Department.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries

  • The rigors of engineering and the Olympics: A conversation with Chinedum Osuji

    In 2004, Chinedum Osuji, Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor and chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, represented Trinidad and Tobago at the Olympic Games in Athens, where he competed in the men’s 80-kilogram weight class in Taekwondo. He shares his unique perspective on the Olympics and the overlap between engineering and sport.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today

  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson named to CDC Advisory Group on Communications

    Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, has been named to the 15-member Communications and Public Engagement Workgroup, which assists the ACD “on agency-wide activities related to how to communicate directly and more effectively with the public, with a focus on reaching local communities with messages.”

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center