University of Pennsylvania Law School 3400 Chestnut St. (entrance on Sansom Street, between 34th and 36th streets)
The auction is the biggest fundraising event by Penn Law School's student-run Equal Justice Foundation. Money raised from the auction will provide scholarships to summer interns at non-profit, legal-aid and governmental organizations. The students gain valuable legal experience and help organizations and individuals that need but cannot afford legal assistance. Students who have received scholarships have worked in areas such as immigrant rights, criminal prosecution and housing rights.
Items to be auctioned include a weekend for two in Las Vegas in a penthouse suite at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino along with passes for Canyon Ranch as well as services such as music lessons, a homemade dinner at a Penn Law School professor's house and gift certificates for dinners at some of the finest Philadelphia restaurants.
In 2002, EJF raised $40,000 to provide grants to fellow Penn Law students.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
