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Louisa Shepard

Senior News Officer
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    Louisa Shepard covers English, history of art, music, theater, classical studies, and cinema and media studies, among other subject areas, in the School of Arts and Sciences. She also supports coverage for the Kelly Writers House, the Graduate School of Education, the Penn Libraries, the Penn Museum, the Arthur Ross Gallery, and the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships, as well as fine arts in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 

    Articles from Louisa Shepard
    Student ambassadors ready to welcome new arrivals during Move-In
    Several students standing outside in front of a historic brick dorm building

    The student coordinators went on a quick tour of College House locations, including the Quad, during their four-day training that started on Tuesday, led by Edwin Berrios (center), associate director of building operations at Penn. 

    Student ambassadors ready to welcome new arrivals during Move-In

    Ready to welcome new arrivals to campus, 25 student coordinators are working as paid staff during Move-In to College Houses this coming week.
    Artist and professor David Hartt is ‘of the moment’
    Artist standing in museum gallery with his artwork installation

    Artist David Hartt with his installation “The Histories” (Crépuscule) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the exhibition “New Grit: Art & Philly Now.” (Image: July 2021 when masks were not required.)

    Artist and professor David Hartt is ‘of the moment’

    This year alone four museums and two galleries are featuring work by artist David Hartt of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, including currently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
    Accessing an artistic archive as an ICA summer intern
    student standing outside with large sculpture behind

    Rising senior Min Park, an art history major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a curatorial intern at the Institute of Contemporary Art through Penn's Summer Humanities Internship Program. (Photo: Wendy Qian)

    Accessing an artistic archive as an ICA summer intern

    Rising senior Min Park, an art history major from South Korea, is organizing the book and image archives as the summer curatorial intern at the Institute of Contemporary Art, and helping plan a September reopening with two new exhibitions.
    Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer
    Student standing outside on hill with Hollywood sign behind her

    Paola Camacho, in the Class of 2024 in the College of Arts and Sciences, was in Los Angeles this summer working with Hollywood writers and Penn alums David Stern and Stuart Gibbs through a RealArts@Penn internship. (Image: Courtesy of Paola Camacho)

    Rising sophomore Paola Camacho’s Hollywood summer

    Rising sophomore Paola Camacho is conducting research for Hollywood writers and Penn alums David Stern and Stuart Gibbs through a Real Arts@Penn internship in Los Angeles.
    ‘Dreaming of Jerusalem’
    screen shot from documentary Homepage image: The documentary “Dreaming of Jerusalem” tells the story of the Ethiopian Jewish community living in Addis Ababa and Gondar, now more than 12,000 people, waiting for the chance to emigrate to what they consider their true homeland.

    ‘Dreaming of Jerusalem’

    Penn’s Peter Decherney and Sosena Solomon make a documentary film about a Jewish community in Ethiopia waiting to emigrate to Israel.
    Filmmaker Claire Sliney heads to Paris with a Nat Geo Storytelling Fulbright
    Student standing outside wearing graduation cap and gown

    Claire Sliney graduated in May from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was the first Penn undergraduate to win an Academy Award, when she was a sophomore. As a senior, she was the first to receive a National Geographic Storytelling Fulbright Fellowship. (Image: Eric Sucar, University of Pennsylvania Communications)

    Filmmaker Claire Sliney heads to Paris with a Nat Geo Storytelling Fulbright

    May graduate Claire Sliney is the first Penn undergrad to receive an Academy Award, and to receive a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship. She heads to Paris to shoot a documentary about how female immigrants in France are portrayed in film.
    The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’
    covid global map

    As a global pandemic, COVID-19 spread across the world. But it didn’t hit everyone equally. “Being healthy is essential to human flourishing,” says Jennifer Prah Ruger, who advocates for shared norms in health governance to address global inequalities. (Image: Martin Sanchez, also featured on homepage)

    The pandemic, health inequities, and an ‘opportunity for change’

    Experts across the University weigh in on which lessons the pandemic drove home and what immediate measures are needed to prevent future loss.
    A high school cheerleader’s free speech and the First Amendment
    five students sitting on steps looking at computers and phones

    A high school cheerleader’s free speech and the First Amendment

    A Pennsylvania high school cheerleader’s profanity-laced rant is now the foundation of a U.S. Supreme Court decision on free speech. Sigal Ben-Porath shares her arguments in her amicus brief to the court, and her predictions on the court’s decision.  
    Ballerina Emily Davis is ‘on her toes’
    Ballerina Emily Davis completed her Penn degree while dancing with the Pennsylvania Ballet.

    May graduate Emily Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the College of Liberal and Professional Studies while working full-time as a ballerina with the Pennsylvania Ballet and volunteering to conduct research at CHOP and community service with Philadelphia nonprofits. (Image: Arian Molina Soca)

    Ballerina Emily Davis is ‘on her toes’

    May graduate Emily Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the College of Liberal and Professional Studies while working full-time as a ballerina with the Pennsylvania Ballet and volunteering to conduct research at CHOP and community service with Philadelphia nonprofits.
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