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Breaking ground on Penn Park
Phase I of the University’s Penn Connects plan has begun with the development of Penn Park, a $40 million urban landscape project that will bring much-needed open and athletic space to University City.
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The Potts Mansion
The Potts Mansion at 3905 Spruce Street has served Penn, in one way or another, for more than 120 years.
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An opera, first animated, now comes to the stage
John Kindness Wendy Steiner believes musical theater is more than just song and dance. “Showboat,” she points out, examined racism in the Deep South. “West Side Story” illuminated gang violence.
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Writing in a community
According to Kelly Writers House Director Jessica Lowenthal, the art of writing happens best in a community. “People write well when they’re writing in concert,” Lowenthal says. “There’s a sense that there’s an immediate audience, but also a sense that there’s feedback from people you trust before you put the work out there.”
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Thinking big
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Marilyn Jordan Taylor says it’s a great time to be thinking big about design.
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What’s the story behind the ICA?
Dear Benny: I walk by the Institute of Contemporary Art almost every day and would like to know if it’s a part of Penn. What sorts of shows does it have? How long has it been around?—Art Lover
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Paradise found
John Moore, "A Fine Fall Day," 2008, oil on canvas As a child, John Moore would play in the vacant back lots of factories in Wellston, a working-class neighborhood in St. Louis. It’s a neighborhood Moore compares to Kensington and North Philadelphia—the kind of places “where there’s a mix of manufacturing and residential all kind of juxtaposed together.”
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Student Spotlight: Nancy Tsang
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Staff Q&A/Greer Cheeseman
Photo credit: Mark Stehle Greer Cheeseman’s rather unique name first became associated with the Penn Band in 1973. Over the course of the ensuing decades, it’s become synonymous with it.
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Penn Names Christian Conroy to Be State Director of the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers
PHILADELPHIA -- Christian Conroy has been named state director of the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Centers.The announcement was made by Steven J. Fluharty, vice provost for research at Penn and chair of the Pennsylvania SBDC Oversight Board.Conroy, interim state director of the SBDC for more than a year, has been with the organization for 15 years, serving as associate state director for nine.