In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
This year’s theme for the the annual student-run Wharton-Weitzman Future of Cities conference covered several topics including urban leadership, real estate, resilience, mobility, and decarbonization.
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Fine arts professor Hayes and alum Lazard are among the artists to be exhibited in “Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing.”
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An international gathering of designers and land managers organized by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology took stock in large-scale ecological restoration projects underway around the world.
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Digital media artist Paul Pfeiffer has been named the Keith L. and Katherine S. Sachs Visiting Professor in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2023–2024 academic year.
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At the Weitzman Commencement Ceremony in May 2024, the School will award Lin Huiyin, arguably the first and most famous female architect in modern China, with a long overdue posthumous Bachelor of Architecture degree.
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Rashida Ng, Presidential Associate Professor of Architecture and chair of the undergraduate architecture program at Penn, and Marsha Perelman, a 1974 graduate of the Master of City Planning program and chair of Calder Philadelphia, have been recognized as 2023 Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania.
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The Weitzman School welcomes Emma Mendel as the 2023-2024 McHarg Fellow in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and Stanley Jamal Collins as a provost’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Xiang Zhang and Maximilian Ororbia have joined the Department of Architecture as postdoctoral fellows.
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Lazard, a 2019 graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the Weitzman School of Design, has received a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship, widely known as a “genius grant.”
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The associate professor of historic preservation and landscape architecture has been awarded for his significant contribution to the preservation of Philadelphia’s built environment.
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The Weitzman School’s Gonick Family Professor was appointed by President Joe Biden to the ACHP, an independent federal agency comprised of 24 statutorily designated members from federal agencies, preservation organizations, Indian tribes, and expert private citizens.
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