In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The cohort for the 2022–23 academic year will engage the theme of Jews and Modern Legal Culture, hailing from Israel, France, Germany, Canada, and the United States, and representing a range of methodological, disciplinary, and historical specializations.
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The 25 students into the class of 2025 SNF Paideia Fellows are a select group of undergraduate students committed to developing the knowledge, skills, and values needed for effective, ethical, and civil dialogue in a diverse world.
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For National Poetry Month, Eileen Kelly, head of collections management for the Penn Libraries, recommends checking out the three Ukranian poets selected for this month’s featured books.
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The Penn Global Research and Engagement Grant Program is introducing 21 new faculty-led research and engagement projects that bring together leading scholars and practitioners across the University and beyond to develop new insight on global issues in key countries and regions around the world.
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The antiquarian, founder and president of the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop, and member of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries Board of Advisors connects people and institutions to culturally significant books, manuscripts, and photographs. “My scope and depth of experience developed over 40 years in this field have given me a keen perspective on what is significant,” he says. “This includes an appreciation for an item’s intellectual importance and its appropriateness for a particular collection, as well as its rarity and value.”
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The recently appointed Penn’s 29th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor is the James W. Effron University Professor, with joint appointments in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Department of Sociology. He is also the author of many scholarly articles and book chapters about gentrification, housing policy, urban poverty, neighborhood change, and residential segregation.
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With the goal of diversity in mind, librarians launched the Latin American Research Resources Project, which initiated the Distributed Resources venture to allow libraries to set aside 7% of their annual budgets to devote to a particular subject area or format. The Penn Libraries focused its Latin American collecting on ethnohistory, folklore, migration, public health, and music sound recordings.
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The Penn junior is awarded a fully funded, four-week leadership program for students of color that is set in Ireland and focused on peace, social justice, and conflict resolution.
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The dissertation of M. Alice Bennett, the first woman to receive a degree from Penn, sheds light on her medical interests as a student at Penn’s School of Auxiliary Medicine before she began a career in psychiatry and women’s health care. This dissertation is fully catalogued and is available in Colenda, the Penn Libraries’ digital repository, for anyone to view.
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This year, the theme “Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope,” offers a salute to today’s frontline workers and caregivers and recognizes a storied history of women around the world practicing as healers, and Penn Libraries offers reading, watching, and listening selections.
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