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  • 2023 My Philadelphia Climate Story Climate Heroes

    As part of My Philadelphia Climate Story, 11 talented high school students from three public Philadelphia schools have been selected to participate in climate writing workshops this winter and spring. In April, Climate Heroes will present excerpts of their work at the Climate Storytelling Festival, an event celebrating My Philadelphia Climate Story's teachers, students, and community activists.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Program in Environmental Humanities →

  • SP2 Nonprofit Leadership Program and Bonner Foundation partner to increase educational access

    A new partnership between the Master of Science in Nonprofit Leadership Program at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation provides full or partial tuition scholarships to academically promising students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in exchange of engaging their talents and education in building and supporting vulnerable communities through civic engagement.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • 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.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • APPC receives support to expand model to combat deceptive claims about health

    With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Annenberg Public Policy Center will expand a new public health media model for blunting the impact of deceptive claims about health by using a preemptive, protective approach that aims to minimize the public’s susceptibility to them.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • Having a sense of purpose in life can keep binge drinking at bay

    A new study from the Annenberg School for Communication reveals that having a sense of purpose in daily life can influence college students’ decisions on day-to-day alcohol consumption.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • How media practitioners and scholars navigate a changing world order

    A symposium held by the Center for Media at Risk and the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication brought together media practitioners from around the globe.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • What should be the 28th amendment to the Constitution?

    If the United States were to have a 28th Amendment to the Constitution, what should it be? The question was posed last fall to hundreds of Philadelphia-area 4th and 5th grade students by the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement in its Citizenship Challenge essay contest.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • 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.

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • SP2’s Yoosun Park awarded 2023 Breul Prize for research on intersection of racism, Americanization, and social work

    In recognition of a pioneering, in-depth analysis of the roles of racism and Americanization in the history of social work, the SP2 associate professor and her and co-author have been awarded the 2023 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize by Social Service Review for their article “To ‘Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize’: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930.”

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • 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.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →