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  • 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 →

  • Tyshawn Sorey wins Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award

    The Presidential Assistant Professor of Music is among seven composers chosen to receive commissions for new musical works from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Historian Mia Bay receives the Order of the Coif 2022 Book Award

    The Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, has received the Order of the Coif 2022 Book Award for “Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance.”

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Jennifer Morton receives 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Education

    The Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Philosophy is the 2023 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award in Education for her study of the ethical sacrifices made by first-generation and low-income university students.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Seven things to know about ‘The Waste Land’ at 100

    Jed Esty, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, discusses the radicalism and relevance of the T.S. Eliot poem.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • National conferences highlight SP2 faculty and researchers

    A national curricular guide, award-winning publications, and data-driven policy approaches were among the contributions of faculty and researchers from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) at national professional conferences in November.

    FULL STORY AT School of Social Policy & Practice →

  • ‘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”).

    FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →

  • SP2 researchers study women’s empowerment in high-risk region through pioneering virtual approach

    Recognized for addressing gender inequities through a technology training program that has graduated an estimated 15,000 marginalized women in Venezuela, the nongovernmental organization Aliadas en Cadena aims to replicate its model in other Latin American countries. Penn alums Victor Simon Gill and Amanda V. Lewis turned to a research team at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) led by Ezekiel Dixon-Román for a formal evaluation of Aliadas en Cadena’s effectiveness.

    FULL STORY AT Social Work Today →

  • David Young Kim’s ‘Groundwork’ named one of the best books of 2022 by Artforum International

    In “Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture” Kim asks viewers to start from the ground and consider it central and the figure second.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →