WHO SHE IS: Hard Surface Custodian, Housekeeping What she does: “We clean up and empty trash. I have a certain area, Levy Park and Penn Commons.”
WHY GOOD WEATHER MEANS MORE WORK: “When you get a nice day you get a lot of trash. People enjoy being out.”
WHY DEVER DOESN'T MIND: “I do like the spring. There are lots of big events—the Penn Relays, graduation, all the parties the schools have. It’s very, very busy… I enjoy the outside and just watching the people. At 10 of the hour they all change classes.”
ON BEING THE ONLY WOMAN IN A 23-PERSON CREW: “All the guys are very nice to me, very helpful. In general, we are a helpful group to each other. All the guys are good workers.”
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.
