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  • Bird friendly Penn invites submissions for design ideas competition

    In the latest effort from Bird Friendly Penn, a campus-wide initiative to make Penn more hospitable, Weitzman students are invited to create signage for Penn buildings to help birds steer clear and minimize collisions. The competition is open to all current Weitzman students. Submissions are due by midnight (Eastern time) on Monday, November 7, and the complete guidelines can be found on the Disrupt the Reflection website.

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  • New gift creates the first named professorship in the historic preservation program at Weitzman

    Thanks to a gift from alums Dawn Brian Gonick, Frank Matero has assumed the first endowed professorship in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation—the first named full professorship created at the School since 2006.

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  • Design professionals and modernism enthusiasts converge at Weitzman for Docomomo 2022

    The Weitzman School was one of three host sponsors for the 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium, marking the return of this annual event to an in-person program, called “Yo! Modernism! The View from Philadelphia.”

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  • Douglas Robb named inaugural McHarg Fellow

    Awarded by The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at Penn, the McHarg Fellowship provides $75,000 to support an emerging voice in landscape architecture and its related fields. Robb’s work lies at intersection of Indigenous sovereignty, climate change, and the energy transition in rural North America.

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  • Penn set to receive $2.4M in funding to research turning buildings into carbon storage structures

    Penn and collaborators will design carbon-negative, medium-sized building structures by developing a high-performance structural system for carbon absorption and storage over buildings’ lifespan.

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  • Corps collaboration: The Environmental Modeling Lab

    EMLab is a newly launched research unit within The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the Weitzman School, is part of a team that has received a grant through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering With Nature program. Researchers from the Department of Landscape Architecture will help collect data and monitor landscape changes related to the Army Corps’ dredging and sediment placement work at sites in the Maurice River in New Jersey.

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  • Weitzman launches Leadership in Design program

    The new program, Executive Program in Design Leadership, is a six-month certificate for designers looking to advance their leadership skills in an online program, taught by leading design educators, practitioners, and experts in leadership development, with courses focused on relationship-building, inclusivity, and transformational leadership.

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  • Reina joins White House as senior policy advisor on housing

    The associate professor of city and regional planning and faculty director of the Housing Initiative at Penn has been named senior policy advisor for housing and urban policy in the White House Domestic Policy Council.

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  • 2022 Senior Design project competition winners announced

    Each year, Penn Engineering’s seniors present their Senior Design projects, a yearlong effort that challenges them to test and develop solutions to real-world problems, to their individual departments. Each winning team received a $2,000 prize.

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  • A new all-school interdisciplinary studio aims to reframe public schools as equity infrastructure

    A studio organized by PennPraxis through a new interdisciplinary initiative at the Weitzman School aims to elevate and reimagine the role of public-school buildings both as community infrastructure and as city-wide equity infrastructure, while making concrete improvements to West Philadelphia schools.

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