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  • Connecting curriculum to the workplace

    Instead of opting for a trip someplace warm for spring break, Weitzman student Maria Jose landed a weeklong externship at KieranTimberlake.

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  • CELA 2023 awardees announced

    Three members of the Weitzman community have been recognized by The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) with 2023 Faculty Awards. Sonja Dümpelmann, professor and acting chair of landscape architecture, is the recipient of the 2023 CELA Award for Excellence in Research and/or Creative Work. LA+, the interdisciplinary journal of landscape architecture based at Weitzman, is the recipient of the 2023 CELA Excellence in Communications Award.

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  • Penn to receive funding to evaluate the impact of emergency rental assistance on evictions

    The Housing Initiative at Penn has been selected to receive over $600,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to study the impact of the Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance Program on housing stability, and particularly on eviction.

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  • Weitzman receives National Park Service grant to protect and preserve Route 66 cultural landscape

    The Center for Architectural Conservation at Weitzman has received one of 11 grants awarded by the National Park Service to develop a model documentation and conservation management plan for the Route 66 landscape in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

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  • Announcing the 2023 Venture Lab Startup Challenge

    The Venture Lab, a collaboration between Penn Engineering, the Wharton School, and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, hosts a Startup Challenge each year, which provides a comprehensive platform to help Penn student entrepreneurs and their teams develop and launch their businesses, and awards $300,000 to launch their ideas into reality.

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  • ‘Disrupt the Reflection’ competition winners

    Five winning proposals have been selected from a Fall 2022 ideas competition, a campus-wide initiative to make Penn more hospitable to birds by designing exterior window film for select buildings in order to reduce fatal collisions (or “bird strikes”).

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  • ‘The Landscape Project’ explores design agency in the 21st century

    “The Landscape Project” is the first-ever publication from the Department of Landscape Architecture to collect essays by the faculty. It features 18 essays by 20 members of the faculty on the ways landscape architects today engage with agriculture, energy, water, urbanism or another issue through the agency of design.

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  • Weitzman to honor Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Hartford400

    The 2022 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Architecture and the 2022 Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning are two of three professional honors bestowed annually by the Weitzman School of Design. They will be presented at a ceremony which raises funds for student scholarships on Feb. 23, 2023.

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  • Weitzman students earn ASLA awards for designs in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico

    Two projects from students in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Department of City & Regional Planning have been recognized by The American Society of Landscape Architecture. “Arboretum Within Wetland”⁠ proposes an immersive experience for visitors to the wetlands along the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., and “A New Central District and Balanced Community”⁠ is a sustainable housing solution for a landscape-prone site in Puerto Rico.

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  • Amber Wiley to join Weitzman faculty and lead civil rights initiative

    The architectural and urban historian whose teaching and research center on the social aspects of design and how it affects urban communities, will join the Weitzman School as Presidential Associate Professor and the inaugural Matt and Erika Nord Director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites.

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