
February is the busiest month for the Penn Lions student dance troupe with many performances scheduled on and off campus for Lunar New Year celebrations.
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.
February is the busiest month for the Penn Lions student dance troupe with many performances scheduled on and off campus for Lunar New Year celebrations.
Penn sophomore Claire Sliney is a co-executive producer of one of five films nominated for an Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject category. The 91st Academy Award ceremony is Feb. 24.
Ten Penn students went on a Civic House service-learning trip to volunteer in Washington, D.C., during Winter Break. Responsible for all their meals, they took turns making dinner.
The Penn Libraries is digitizing and sharing books published in 1923 that have come into the public domain. One is "Vinzi a Story of the Swiss Alps," by Johanna Spyri, author of the more-famous "Heidi." The edition is the first U.S. translation to English from German, published in Philadelphia.
Penn English Professor Charles Bernstein
The Penn Manuscript Collective is a group of students who meet on Fridays to transcribe rare documents at the Penn Libraries. Sophomore Henry Hung, a philosophy major, examines an early handwritten draft of “Going Somewhere” by poet Walt Whitman.
Laura Aydelotte examines some of the 19th-century Philadelphia theater playbills in the Penn Libraries collection that are included in a project that allows the public to help transcribe digitized copies. An upcoming conference at Penn will explore digital approaches to researching theater history.
The Arthur Ross Gallery's “Citizen Salon” exhibition features 50 works from Penn’s art collection, chosen by the public in an innovative crowdsourcing curation project.