John Mark Ockerbloom (left) and Rachelle R. Nelson are leading a team of about two dozen Penn Libraries staffers in a project to analyze 10,000 periodicals in the collection to determine which are no longer restricted by copyright, making them available for free and unrestricted use.
Libraries scour the stacks for copyright free content
Known as the Deep Backfile project, a team of Penn Libraries staff has been analyzing an accumulated history of periodicals in the collection to determine which are no longer restricted by copyright, making them available for free and unrestricted use.
A virtual discussion with Penn faculty about pursuing both their artistic and academic interests was held by the Kelly Writers House for Homecoming, featuring (left-right, top-bottom) English Professors Al Filreis, Simone White, Herman Beavers, and History Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet from the School of Arts & Sciences, and Fine Arts Professors Ken Lum and Sharon Hayes from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Professors on the importance of integrating the arts into life and work
While there are some challenges, universities provide an environment for faculty to pursue both their artistic creativity and academic scholarship, said Penn professors in a Homecoming discussion led by Al Filreis of the Kelly Writers House.
The Penn Labs student group created the Penn Clubs online platform to build a comprehensive database for student groups. The new online platform hosted a virtual fall Student Activities Fair. The Penn Clubs team is led by seniors Selina Nie (top right) and Eric Wang (top center).
Penn Clubs online platform helps students find extracurricular groups and activities
Discovering and joining extracurricular groups and activities is now easier with the new Penn Clubs online platform, developed and managed by students for students.
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced 41 grants totaling $10.5 million in support of the Philadelphia region’s artists and cultural programs, events, and artistic work. Receiving project grants were Penn's Institute for Contemporary Art and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, as well as a project by Girard College that involves two Penn faculty, theater director Brooke O’Harra (left) and music composer Tyshawn Sorey, both of the School of Arts & Sciences.
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Pew Center for Arts & Heritage awards 2020 grants to Penn projects
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced 41 grants totaling $10.5 million in support of the Institute for Contemporary Art and Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and a Girard College project involving theater director Brooke O’Harra and music composer Tyshawn Sorey.
Penn President Amy Gutmann (left), Suzanne McGraw, Harold McGraw III, and GSE Dean Pam Grossman, at the McGraw Prize launch event on Feb. 13.
Three educators celebrated at Penn GSE as winners of the McGraw Prize in Education
In the first celebration of the McGraw Prize in Education since the Graduate School of Education became its home, President Amy Gutmann said this year’s three winners are among the “great minds devoted to improving education through innovation."
Heather Moqtaderi, assistant director and curator of the Arthur Ross Gallery, in front of two hanging artworks by El Anatsui.
New exhibition ‘Re-materialize’ features artists who transform recycled materials
Open to the public for the first time since March, the Arthur Ross Gallery’s new exhibition “Re-materialize” features sculptures and mixed-media work by four artists who transform found and recycled materials.
Among the many approaches professors are using to teach online is to create videos of lectures for students to access anytime and to devote class time together for discussion and group activities. Math professor Robert Ghrist created a video textbook to teach multivariable calculus.
To be successful online, faculty went back to the classroom
With students learning remotely, Penn provides support for professors as they’ve been challenged to retool courses and rethink their approaches to teaching.
The first event on the new Penn Presents online platform created by the Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships is the 2020 Fall Research Expo featuring more than 300 posters by students describing their faculty-mentored projects.
Undergraduate research poster session goes virtual
The Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships’ new online platform, Penn Presents, virtually display undergraduate research activities. The first event is the 14th annual Fall Research Expo featuring more than 300 posters.
Sophomore Jacques Thompson studied humor with Classical Studies Professor Ralph Rosen during a summer internship through the Penn Undergraduate Research & Mentorship Program.
Jacques Thompson explores ‘immoral humor’ through a historic lens
Through a summer research project with Classical Studies Professor Ralph Rosen, sophomore Jacques Thompson focused on the evolutionary aspect of “immoral humor,” analyzing performances by comedians Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K.
Leanna Tilitei, a sophomore who plans to declare a major in communications, was a programming intern at Penn’s public radio station WXPN during the summer.
Radio magic: A summer internship at WXPN’s ‘World Cafe’
As a summer intern for WXPN’s ‘World Cafe,’ sophomore Leanna Tilitei worked remotely as a member of the programming team helping to produce the ‘nation’s most listened-to-public radio music program.’
