Amanda Mott manages media relations related to the Office of the Executive Vice President which includes facilities and real estate, Penn’s Climate Action Plan, student financial services, business services, campus housing and dining, and the endowment. In addition, she covers Commencement and Penn Global including Perry World House, the Penn Wharton China Center, and the Penn Biden Center.
The IREF project “The Inhabited Sea,” led by Nikhil Anand in the School of Arts and Sciences and Anuradha Mathur in the School of Design, examines in part how populations such as the dock workers of Mumbai (pictured above) understand and negotiate their relationship with the rising seas that surround them. Photo by Rudolph A. Furtado, from Wikimedia Commons.
The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’
During the next two years, Penn IREF will award as much as $2 million in matching research grants to Penn faculty to stimulate and support research activity in India.
South view of the contemporary expansion of the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics. Photo copyright Adrien Williams, courtesy of KPMB.
Adrien Williams, courtesy of KPMB
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics design pairs new with old
An expansive contemporary addition complements and incorporates the adaptive reuse of the circa 1925 Art Deco-style heritage bank building at the corner of 36th and Walnut streets.
University of Pennsylvania to launch Second Year Experience
The program, designed to address the unique needs of second-year students, introduces special programming for academics, research, and advising, and a two-year housing requirement set to begin in 2020.
Philadelphia Managing Director Michael DiBerardinis to join Fels as Professor of Practice
Michael DiBerardinis, who has served as Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor James Kenney since January 2016, will be joining the School of Arts and Sciences in January 2019 as a Professor of Practice at the Fels Institute of Government.
The College of Liberal and Professional Studies launches online bachelor’s degree
The School of Arts and Sciences’ College of Liberal and Professional Studies has launched a new program that, for the first time, makes an Ivy League bachelor’s degree accessible online. Beginning in the fall of 2019, the Penn LPS Online platform will offer a fully-accredited, online education for working adults and other non-traditional students.
The Class of 2018-2019 Perry World House Fellows pictured clockwise from the top are: Felipe Calderón, Derek Chollet, Charles W. Dent, H.R. McMaster, Susan Rice, Bob Work, Sozi Pedro Tulante, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, and Nadia Schadlow.
University of Pennsylvania announces 2018-2019 Perry World House Fellows
Felipe Calderón, H.R. McMaster, Susan Rice, and Charles Dent are among nine leaders named, bringing their perspective and expertise in national and global government to Penn's global policy research institute.
Penn names inaugural faculty co-directors of the Office of Penn First Plus Students
University of Pennsylvania Provost Wendell Pritchett has announced the appointments of Camille Charles and Robert Ghrist as the inaugural faculty co-directors of the Office of Penn First Plus Students.
President Amy Gutmann poses at the photo booth with College Board members, including Sophomore College Board President Lizzie Youshaei and Junior College Board President Karim El Sewedy, at the sophomore and junior welcome back picnic.
Sophomore and junior picnic focuses on friends
More than 1,250 attended this year’s annual welcome back picnic hosted by the President’s Office on College Green.
From left: Nakeeya Garland (undecided, College of Arts and Sciences), Misha McDaniel (English, College of Arts and Sciences), Tiarrah Wilson (Africana Studies, College of Arts and Sciences) and Stephanie Tian (Wharton), all sophomores moving into Harrison College House.
At a glance: Move-In 2018
Move-In officially begins on Tuesday, Aug. 21 with international, transfer, exchange and first-generation, low-income students arriving on campus, ready to begin the 2018-19 academic year.
Penn First Plus expands programs and support for first-generation students
A preview of new initiatives for the community of first-generation, low-income students to provide more support to help them thrive and succeed at Penn.
