In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Marilyn Jordan Taylor, Ali Rahim, and Richard Weller of the Weitzman School hosted a two-day event called the Penn-China Design Dialogues in Beijing, with three panels focused on urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture.
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On the cusp of graduating with his Master of Urban Spatial Analytics degree from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, Anthony Ayebiahwe is poised to lead A&Co., the startup he founded in January that is creating an affordable, multipurpose rechargeable LED lamp. It’s also developing an alert system for Ghanaians whose lives are impacted regularly by floods.
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The Weitzman School of Design’s new externship program connects students to a fast-tracked temporary training in a workplace, and gets a soon-to-be graduate’s foot in the door and gives students the flexibility to experiment in finding a firm that’s a good fit.
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Through a partnership with PennDesign, the Penn Museum is displaying a collection of objects made just weeks ago. The objects are the work of first-year graduate architecture students who were asked to imagine a 42,000-square-foot addition to the museum that would integrate collections storage, gallery, and event spaces.
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Alumnae Haley Russell and Laura Colagrande, the winners for the iDesign Prize, have brought cricket protein pet snack to market.
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A new collection of positions on architecture and the environment edited by Assistant Professor Sophie Hochhäusl and ETH Visiting Professor Torsten Lange has been published in Architectural Histories. The collection, titled "Field Notes," is a collaboration between members of the European Architectural History Network's Architecture and Environment group.
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This past fall, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning Allison Lassiter led a class called Sensing the City, in which fifteen students from the City Planning, Masters of Urban Spatial Analytics, and Integrated Product Design programs used Arduino to develop concepts for collecting data from and interacting with the urban environment.
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PennDesign has appointed Ralph Lemon, a choreographer, writer, visual artist, and curator, the Keith L. and Kathy Sachs Visiting Professor in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2018-2019 Academic Year.
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Jennifer Whittaker, a PhD student in the Department of City and Regional Planning, has been selected to participate in one of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s leadership development programs.
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The $1.25 million gift from the Harry T. Wilks Foundation will lead research and programming at The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, where environmental and social scientists join with with planners, designers, policy makers, and communities to develop practical, innovative ways of improving the quality of life in the places most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
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