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Penn team of four undergrads awarded the Davis Projects for Peace grant
four student photographs in a grid

The team of four students in the College of Arts and Sciences chosen for a 2024 Kathryn Wasserman Davis Projects for Peace grant for their summer community healthcare project in Philadelphia includes, clockwise from top left,  third-year students Annabelle Jin, Claire Jun, and Destiny Uwawuike, and second-year student Johana Munoz.

(Images: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships)

Penn team of four undergrads awarded the Davis Projects for Peace grant

Four students in the College of Arts and Sciences have been chosen for 2024 Kathryn Wasserman Davis Projects for Peace grant of $10,000 for their summer community health care project in Philadelphia addressing reproductive justice and menstrual equity.
Philadelphia School District students are learning through dance
Donnell Powell in a gymnasium with young students.

Penn Live Arts teaching artist Donnell Powell.

(Image: Edward Epstein)

Philadelphia School District students are learning through dance

A residency from Rennie Harris Puremovement is part of a Penn Live Arts program which offers pre-performance visits to local schools.

Two Penn students awarded Truman Scholarships
photos of two students

Two Penn third-year students, Aravind Krishnan (left) and Tej Patel, have received Harry S. Truman Scholarships.

(Images: Courtesy of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships)

Two Penn students awarded Truman Scholarships

Third-year students Aravind Krishnan and Tej Patel in the Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management have received Harry S. Truman Scholarships.
Impressionism and the modernization of time
Claude Monet’s The Japanese Footbridge painting.

Claude Monet’s The Japanese Footbridge, 1899.

(Image: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Impressionism and the modernization of time

A new book from history of art professor André Dombrowski knits together the works of artists like Claude Monet and the nature of time as it emerges in its present-day form.

From Omnia

With Project SHARPE, Amalia Daché documents reparations in higher ed
Amalia Daché.

Penn GSE associate professor Amalia Daché.

(Image: Lora Reehling for Penn GSE)

With Project SHARPE, Amalia Daché documents reparations in higher ed

Project SHARPE aims to “look at work of reparations and what campuses founded before the Civil War are doing to repair,” surveying students of African descent about their experiences on campus.

From Penn GSE

A trio of events welcome world leaders to Penn
A composite of three images featuring, left to right, Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio; former South African President Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe; and former Peruvian President  Francisco Sagasti.

World leaders who came to Penn in recent weeks include (left to right) Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio; former South African President Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe; and former Peruvian President and Penn alum Francisco Sagasti.

(Images: Courtesy of Eddy Marenco and Sarah Miller Photography)


 

A trio of events welcome world leaders to Penn

In recent weeks, the Center for Africana Studies hosted the president of Sierra Leone and a former president of South Africa, while Perry World House had a conversation with a former leader of Peru.

Kristen de Groot

Two Penn professors named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows
Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas.

Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas of the School of Arts & Sciences.

(Images: Courtesy of Penn Arts & Sciences and Shira Yudkoff)

Two Penn professors named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows

Wale Adebanwi and Deborah A. Thomas of the School of Arts & Sciences are among 188 fellows chosen in the United States and Canada.

Kristina García