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Three Penn Professors Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Three University of Pennsylvania professors have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Beverly Davidson of the Perelman School of Medicine, Samuel Freeman of Law School and School of Arts & Sciences and Pamela Grossman, dean of the Graduate School of Education.
‘Upcycling’ art exhibit featured at Arthur Ross Gallery
In the entrance to Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery is a work of art made with more than 350 shoes in concentric rings of color, creating the impression of a giant chrysanthemum, the center made of bright yellow pumps with black soles.
Penn Flutes Performs on Campus and in Community
The unlikely sound of flutes filled the rotunda of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology on a recent Friday, drawing visitors to the live concert by Penn students.
Penn GSE Student Faced Failure Before Finding Success Through Education
With a grade point average hovering below 1.0, Larry McDaniel Jr. tried and failed at community college, dismissed on four separate occasions.Now a master’s student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, McDaniel says his progress was part of a long, difficult and emotional journey.
Penn Students, Faculty and Staff Discuss ‘Implicit Bias’ in Academia
A group of nearly 100 University of Pennsylvania faculty, students and staff gathered together for the “Implicit Bias Teach-In,” an event organized as a “safe space” to have a conversation about what can be an uncomfortable topic: biases.
Penn program teaches practical English and trains novice teachers
The 24 adults seated in the class, from at least a dozen countries, are each connected to someone at Penn. They are here to learn to speak English, free of charge.
VAST LIFE Program Expands Horizons of Students and Future Teachers
Studying a map on his iPad, Owen Smith looks up at the street signs and back down at the map. He looks both ways, then turns right down 34th Street, the correct direction for his destination, the Penn Museum.The decision prompts praise from the group of students crowded around him on the street corner.
GSE Students Teach English in Penn Communities Through PEDAL Program
The room is packed. The 24 adults seated in the class, from at least a dozen countries, are each connected to someone at the University of Pennsylvania. They are here to learn to speak English, free of charge.
‘Ancientbiotics’ team tests medieval treatments for modern ailments
Clues to creating new antibiotics may be hidden in a 15th-century medical text, now being studied by a medievalist at Penn.
Far From Home, Poet Fatemeh Shams Finds Sense of Belonging and a Voice at Penn
The cadence of her poem is almost lyrical as Fatemeh Shams, speaking in her native Persian, reads aloud to the audience at Kelly Writers House. But the tone is forceful as she nearly spits out the word repeated in each phrase: تبعيد, "exile."