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  • The Sachs Program 2018/2019 grant opportunities

    Numerous grants will be awarded to fund student work, teachers, artists, curators and community engagers. 

    FULL STORY AT Sachs Program for Arts Innovation →

  • Music, ethnicity, and the legacy of war in Sri Lanka

    An intense interest in drumming led Jim Sykes, Assistant Professor of Music, to study how music connects Sri Lankan populations typically defined by ethnic difference.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Robotics Lab pushes boundaries of design and construction for tiny house prototype

    Stuart-Smith and Akbarzadeh, assistant professors of architecture at PennDesign, are working a tiny house prototype consisting of about ten total pieces, which can be assembled and disassembled. Each piece will be cast inside a mold that will be cut by a robot in the ARI Robotics Lab.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • Professor Jessa Lingel leads zine-making workshop on feminist pedagogy

    For the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Department’s pedagogy seminar, Lingel led a collaborative zine-making workshop. The final product is currently stocked at Blue Stockings, a feminist bookstore in New York City, and Wooden Shoe, an anarchist bookstore in Philadelphia.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Helping students “fall in love with architecture” at a Bronx high school

    For the past four years, alumna Amneris Rasuk has taught at In-Tech Academy, a public middle and high school in the Bronx. For her architecture class, of which students receive college credit, Rasuk has created a yearlong program that she describes as “geometry in architecture.” But funding for proper tools—especially those used to draft—is few and far between.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • On the water in Philadelphia

    A summer research seminar by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities  allowed students to conduct research on Philadelphia's waterways and collaborate with community partners.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Sonari Chidi uses film to put a human face on the need for social change

    Chidi, a cinema and Africana studies major in the Class of 2020, made the film Shattering Refuge, which explores the depictions of refugees and displaced peoples in the media, which won the Rough Cut Film Festival’s prestigious Social Justice Award.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • Reinventing museums for the digital generation

    Penn Museum Director Julian Siggers talks about how the institution uses digital tools and strategies to showcase its treasures, bringing in more foot traffic and a new generation of museum-goers.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →

  • What do bots, climate change, and academic grants have in common? Doctoral student Douglas Guilbeault points to the importance of categories.

    Doctoral student Douglas Guilbeault studies how over the last several years, bots have been regularly making headlines, exposed for posing as ordinary people in an effort to meddle in elections, harass social media users, steal personal information, and influence public opinion on behalf of governments and corporations.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • APPC distinguished research fellow Danielle Bassett awarded Erdős-Rényi Prize

    The prize, awarded by the Network Science Society, honors the work of a scientist under the age of 40 for achievements in the field of network science.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →