Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, FRES Senior Vice President Anne Papageorge, Interim President J. Larry Jameson, and AES Senior Director of Origination Walter Crenshaw cut a ribbon to celebrate the operation of the Great Cove I and II solar facilities.
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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.
Fourth-year Ph.D. student Jacqueline Wallis, middle, facilitated an exercise during Philosophy Club after school at the Academy at Palumbo, with high school students Leila Salama, left, and Marty Signes, right.
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Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions
Ph.D. students Jacqueline Wallis and Afton Greco are embedded at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia, where they give philosophy lessons on curriculum-relevant topics and run an after-school Philosophy Club.
A game warden with the Pennsylvania Game Commission holds a wild turkey during a turkey trapping in northeastern Pennsylvania. Also in attendance were people from Penn Vet's Wildlife Futures Program: Lauren Maxwell, wildlife health technician, and R. Scott Larsen, wildlife veterinary liaison.
(Image: R. Scott Larsen/Wildlife Futures Program)
Understanding disease prevalence in Pennsylvania wild turkeys
Researchers from Penn Vet’s Wildlife Futures Program are collaborating with the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Penn State on a multi-year turkey study.
Joey Wu, a student in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), gave a presentation on "Super Plants" as part of the Lightning Talks during Energy Week in 2023.
(Image: Courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)
Energy Week to highlight research across disciplines at Penn
The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology are hosting Energy Week March 11-15, with more than two dozen events featuring Penn faculty, students, and outside experts.
Ritsumeikan University students work on a collective mapping exercise led by Penn anthropology Ph.D. student Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo, using markers, sticky notes, and stickers to annotate a map with the emotions, memories, and habits they associate with different parts of Kyoto.
(Image: Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo)
In Japan, teaching a multitude of creative anthropology practices
Penn anthropologists in the Center for Experimental Ethnography led workshops at Ritsumeikan University on performance, film, mapping, sound, and collaging.
The Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing invited nursing researchers and practitioners from Philadelphia and around the country to its Solutions to Health Inequities & Nurses’ Emotional Exhaustion Invitational.
(Image: Kelvin Amenyedor/CHOPR)
Finding solutions for burnout among nurses of color
The Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the School of Nursing brought together nurses and researchers for the Solutions to Health Inequities & Nurses’ Emotional Exhaustion Invitational.
University of Pennsylvania neuroscience professor Peter Sterling joined the Freedom Rides in 1961, when he was an undergraduate at Cornell University, and was arrested.
(Images: Courtesy of the Office of Social Equity and Inclusion)
‘From the Freedom Rides to neuroscience’
In conversation with Professor of Practice Ben Jealous, neuroscience professor Peter Sterling returned to campus to talk about activism in his youth and how that informed his research in health.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott speaks at a press conference on results from its Group Violence Reduction Strategy, which University of Pennsylvania researchers helped implement and analyze, and next steps.
(Image: Courtesy of Jack French/Baltimore Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement)
How Penn researchers are helping address group violence in Baltimore
The Crime and Justice Policy Lab has seen encouraging results from its work implementing a Group Violence Reduction Strategy in part of the city.
