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Picturing artistic pursuits
Hundreds of undergraduates take classes in the fine arts each semester, among them painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, printmaking and animation, photography and videography. The courses, through the School of Arts & Sciences and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an art form in a collaborative way.
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The Penn-China architectural connection
Penn’s Weitzman School of Design has a long history of collaboration in China, and large number of Chinese international students are undertaking adaptive reuse and historical preservation projects.
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Penn celebrates operation and benefits of largest solar power project in Pennsylvania
Solar production has begun at the Great Cove I and II facilities in central Pennsylvania, the equivalent of powering 70% of the electricity demand from Penn’s academic campus and health system in the Philadelphia area.
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Imagining a sustainable future in Southern Greenland
Billy Fleming and landscape architecture students in the Weitzman School of Design brainstormed possibilities for a green economy in a former mining town in one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth.
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At Shenandoah National Park, the past, present, and future of a historic center of Black life
The Urban Heritage Project, an initiative of the Weitzman School’s Department of Historic Preservation, is working with the National Park Service to evaluate historically segregated cabin camps as nationally significant cultural heritage sites.
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What’s That? Sun shades at the Vagelos Lab
The shades account for solar geometry to make for an eye-catching view from the east and west—all while reducing energy usage.
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Penn students present work to help rebuild Ukrainian city
With the two-year anniversary of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine looming, city planners begin to strategize solutions to rebuild, sustainably.
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25 years of ‘LOVE’
The iconic sculpture by pop artist Robert Indiana arrived on campus in 1999 and soon became a natural place to come together.
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Weitzman’s Vanessa Grossman on the cultural value of architecture
In a Q&A, the architect, historian, and curator discusses her research and published books, which explore the relationship between architecture, politics, and social movements.
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Celebrating the Projects for Progress 2023 cohort
At an event on Jan. 30, three winning project groups were honored for ‘choosing to help make lives better.’