Morris Arboretum names William Cullina as executive director
William Cullina has been named the F. Otto Haas Executive Director of the Morris Arboretum beginning July 8, succeeding Paul W. Meyer, who served the Arboretum for 43 years, 28 years as executive director.
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.
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.
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.
Four Penn faculty were named 2019 Guggenheim Fellows. Clockwise from left: Jed Esty for literary criticism, Carmen Maria Machado for fiction, Adriana Petryna for anthropology and cultural studies, and Michelle Lopez for fine arts.
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.
Christina Steele, a junior psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a 2019 Beinecke Scholar, a program which provides substantial scholarships for graduate education. (Photo: Aaron Olson)
Penn junior Christina Steele named Beinecke Scholar
Penn junior Christina Steele has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship to pursue her graduate education. She is the 12th Beinecke Scholar from Penn since the award was first given in 1975.
Two centuries after his birth, Walt Whitman’s poetry still resonates with audiences today. The Penn Libraries is leading a region-wide, yearlong celebration of Whitman at 200.
The Penn Global Seminar course Seeing, Hearing, and Encountering South Africa, taught by Professor of Music Carol Muller, took 16 students on two weeks of travel throughout that nation, including Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria.
Seeing, hearing, and encountering post-apartheid South Africa
A Penn Global Seminar course taught by Carol Muller took the 16 undergraduates to South Africa to explore that nation's history and post-apartheid present day through music and culture. The students demonstrated the impact of the journey through final projects including a painting, a written paper, a poem, a film, a photo essay, a musical score—even a set of political cartoons.
Penn English Professor David Wallace is the president of the Medieval Academy of America, which is holding its annual conference on campus. (Photo: Eric Sucar)
A meeting of medievalists
More than 500 medieval scholars from the U.S. and Europe will be on campus for the annual Medieval Academy of America conference. Dozens of panels, workshops, and lectures about the Middle Ages will convene, many led by Penn faculty.
