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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
    Class of 2019 includes 14 Fulbright awardees
    Photos of 14 students.

    The Class of 2019 includes 14 students who have accepted a Fulbright Awards for the 2019-2020 academic year. Top row, left to right: Fjora Arapi, Carinthia Bank, Julia Bell, Dillon Bergin, Wilson Fisher. Middle row, left to right: Savi Joshi, John McGahay, Tiberiu Mihaila, Candace Morff, Shiv Nadkarni. Bottom row, left to right: Hughes Ransom, Mark Rinder, Caroline Scown, Nicholas Wehbeh. 

    Class of 2019 includes 14 Fulbright awardees

    The University of Pennsylvania Class of 2019 includes 14 students who have accepted a Fulbright Award.
    Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan
    Jennifer Egan stands in front of classroom holding papers in hand.

    Novelist and Penn alum Jennifer Egan taught a literature course on modern fiction this semester as an artist-in-residence. 

    Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan

    Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan returns to her alma mater to teach a course on English literature.
    Musical merger of academics and performance
    Student playing the cello in front of class and professors and another student playing the piano.

    Music 236 combines professional performance instruction with academic study of music history and analysis. Tom Kraines (standing), a cellist and artist-in-residence with the Daedalus Quartet and pianist Yu Xi Wang (seated center), of the Curtis Institute of Music work with Penn sophomore Justin Blum on the cello and freshman Jasmine Chen on the piano. 

    Musical merger of academics and performance

    Music 236 emerges students in focused study on one classical composer through academics and musical performance with the Daedalus Quartet.
    Four Penn undergraduates receive Goldwater Scholarships
    Sophomore Chloe Cho and juniors Lauren Duhamel, Srinivas Mandyam and Abigail Poteshman.

    Four Penn undergraduates have received a Goldwater Scholarship. Clockwise from top left, sophomore Chloe Cho and junior Lauren Duhamel in the School of Engineering and Applied Science; and juniors Srinivas Mandyam and Abigail Poteshman in the School of Arts and Sciences.

    Four Penn undergraduates receive Goldwater Scholarships

    Four Penn undergraduates have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering. Sophomore Chloe Cho and juniors Lauren Duhamel, Srinivas Mandyam and Abigail Poteshman.
    A life of writing and song
    Rosanne Cash speaking at microphone at table with professor Al Filreis looking at her and smiling.

    Singer-songwriter and author Rosanne Cash (left) met with students at the Kelly Writers House as part of the Fellows program, now in its 20th year. She made two public appearances, including a discussion with Al Filreis (right), English professor and Writers House faculty director.  

    A life of writing and song

    Rosanne Cash, a Kelly Writers House Fellow, was on campus for a course taught by English Professor Al Filreis that focuses on three eminent writers each spring semester.  
    Rare Chinese scroll unfurled at Penn Museum
    Seven students gathered together looking at a painted Chinese scroll unrolled on a table.

    Students in an art history course study objects each week at the Penn Museum, including a rare 200-year-old painted Chinese scroll. The course, History of Chinese Painting, is taught by Professor Nancy Steinhardt and grad student teaching assistant Chuanxin Weng (pictured center). 

    Rare Chinese scroll unfurled at Penn Museum

    Students in a history of art course taught by Professor Nancy Steinhardt had the chance to closely examine a rare 200-year-old painted Chinese scroll at the Penn Museum.
    Safe haven
    Brendan Taliaferro

     Brendan Taliaferro of Host Homes for LGBTQ Youth in Philadelphia

    Safe haven

    Senior Brendan Taliaferro receives the President’s Engagement Prize for a project to provide housing and support for homeless LGBTQ youth in Philadelphia.
    Two undergrads named Truman Scholars
    Juniors Ángel Ortiz-Siberón and Louis Lin.

    Penn juniors Ángel Ortiz-Siberón (left) and Louis Lin have received Harry S. Truman Scholarships to pursue graduate studies in government or public service. 

    Two undergrads named Truman Scholars

    Louis Lin and Ángel Ortiz-Siberón, have received Harry S. Truman Scholarships, a merit-based award of as much as $30,000 for graduate or professional school to prepare for careers in government or public service.
    Cuban horizons
    Four people standing in front of a painting, clapping and looking at each other.

    At the opening of the “Soy Cuba / I Am Cuba” exhibition, from left, Associate Professor of History of Art Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Arthur Ross Gallery Executive Director Lynne Marsden-Atlass, Cuban artist Roger Toledo, and gallery Assistant Director Heather Gibson Moqtaderi. 

    Cuban horizons

    Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw’s art history classcurates a new Arthur Ross Gallery exhibition of paintings by Roger Toledo after visiting his Havana studio.
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