Red & Blue top Big Red Image: Penn Athletics Red & Blue top Big Red The men’s soccer team beat Cornell 1-0 on Saturday at Penn Park.
Stevens Center unveils app made for teens, by teens Robert King, a Big Picture High School student, utilizes the Stevens Center Program as his internship placement for course credit. (Image: James Blocker, Shira Yudkoff Photography) Stevens Center unveils app made for teens, by teens For over a year, 35 high school students who are interns at the Center developed an app that helps college-bound adolescents calculate the cost of higher education.
Celebrity chefs Amanda Freitag and Michael Solomonov discuss culinary diplomacy At Perry World House, (left to right) Lauren Bernstein, founder and CEO of The Culinary Diplomacy Project, Zahav Chef Michael Solomonov, Perry World House Interim Director Michael Weisberg, and celebrity chef Amanda Freitag. (Image: Courtesy of Perry World House) Celebrity chefs Amanda Freitag and Michael Solomonov discuss culinary diplomacy Perry World House hosted a lively conversation moderated by former Visiting Fellow Lauren Bernstein that highlighted how chefs can promote cross-cultural awareness through global culinary engagement.
Dispossessions and race in the Americas Belén Unzueta and her students looked at the enrollment cards the U.S. government gave Native Americans. It’s striking, because the cards list the blood quantum, she says. (Image: Harris & Ewing, photographer/Library of Congress) Dispossessions and race in the Americas Belén Unzueta is teaching a seminar on the historical account of race and ethnicity in the Americas as a Penn-Mellon Just Futures Initiative graduate fellow.
PennPraxis Design Fellows help reimagine New Orleans highway corridor Design Fellow and MArch student Cheyenne Yamada (front row, at right) with members of the Colloqate team and community members in New Orleans. (Image: Courtesy of the Weitzman School) PennPraxis Design Fellows help reimagine New Orleans highway corridor A collaboration with members of PennPraxis Design Fellows program and design firm Colloqate Design tackles a ‘design justice’ project, working with residents of the Tremé since 2017 on new visions for the corridor.
SNF Paideia Program at Penn receives $13M to promote informed dialogue and civic engagement Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) co-president Andreas Dracopoulos, (front left), Penn President Liz Magill (front center), and SNF Paideia founding faculty director Michael X. Delli Carpini (front right) gathered with students and alumni in the rare book collection of the National Library of Greece at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, as a part of the SNF Nostos Conference, held in Athens in June 2023. nocred SNF Paideia Program at Penn receives $13M to promote informed dialogue and civic engagement The support is the third such grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin The “Young Benjamin Franklin” statue in front of Weightman Hall on 33rd street depicts Penn’s founder as the 17-year-old who arrived in Philadelphia 300 years ago. nocred An inauspicious arrival for the ambitious Benjamin Franklin Penn’s founder arrived in Philadelphia on Oct. 6 300 years ago as a nearly penniless 17-year-old looking for a job as a printer.
Factors linked to racial disparities in chronic pain after injury Image: iStock/Igor Vershinsky Factors linked to racial disparities in chronic pain after injury Researchers at the School of Nursing have shown that differences in the characteristics of acute injuries are associated with racial disparities in chronic pain.
The promising use of AI models in contract interpretation Image: iStock/Suriya Phosri The promising use of AI models in contract interpretation In “Generative Interpretation,” Penn Carey Law’s David Hoffman shows how large language models provide a better method of contract interpretation, with some caveats.
Carnot Prize awarded to architect of Uruguay’s energy transition Penn President Liz Magill presents Ramón Méndez Galain with the 2023 Carnot Prize, in a ceremony at the Kleinman Center Energy Forum. (Image: T. Kevin Birch) Carnot Prize awarded to architect of Uruguay’s energy transition The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy held a ceremony to honor Ramón Méndez Galain, Uruguay’s former energy director.