Louisa Shepard

News Officer

Louisa Shepard covers several subject areas in the School of Arts and Sciences including History of Art, Music, and English, which includes Cinema and Media Studies, Center for Creative Writing, and Kelly Writers House. She also supports coverage at the Graduate School of Education, PennDesign, the Libraries, the Penn Museum, the Arthur Ross Gallery, the Institute for Contemporary Art and the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Student standing in front of a stand of forsythia.

Photo finish

Graduating senior Wilson Fisher will use a Fulbright Award to study photographers and other artists in Ukraine.

Louisa Shepard ・ May 16, 2019

Class of 2019 includes 14 Fulbright awardees

The University of Pennsylvania Class of 2019 includes 14 students who have accepted a Fulbright Award.

Louisa Shepard , Aaron Olson ・ May 14, 2019

Jennifer Egan stands in front of classroom holding papers in hand.

Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan returns to her alma mater to teach a course on English literature.

Louisa Shepard ・ May 7, 2019

Student playing the cello in front of class and professors and another student playing 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.

Louisa Shepard ・ May 7, 2019

Sophomore Chloe Cho and juniors Lauren Duhamel, Srinivas Mandyam and Abigail Poteshman.

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.

Louisa Shepard , Aaron Olson ・ April 26, 2019

Rosanne Cash speaking at microphone at table with professor Al Filreis looking at her and smiling.

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.

Louisa Shepard ・ April 25, 2019

Seven students gathered together looking at a painted Chinese scroll unrolled on a table.

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.

Louisa Shepard ・ April 23, 2019

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.

Louisa Shepard ・ April 12, 2019

Juniors Ángel Ortiz-Siberón and Louis Lin.

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.

Louisa Shepard , Aaron Olson ・ April 11, 2019

Four people standing in front of a painting, clapping and looking at each other.

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.

Louisa Shepard ・ April 10, 2019

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