Stuart Weitzman School of Design

The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) will participate in Habitat III, the United Nations premier conference addressing sustainable urban development, to be held in Quito, Ecuador on October 17-20, 2016.

By Patrick Ammerman Scientists can seem set apart from other disciplines, interpreting the rules of the natural world without the involvement of the social sciences and the humanities. But a new initiative at the University of Pennsylvania is trying to change that by fostering new collaborations around the lynchpin issue of energy.

Mary Reid Kelley, a senior critic in the Master of Fine Arts program in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania has been selected as a 2016 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design has named three new senior fellows: William Hederman, former senior advisor to the U.S.

Beth Murray’s not your typical intern.

Leaders of nations, businesses and academia gathered in a corner of Switzerland to meet promising young graduate students and foster dialogue on critical economic and political issues.

(In the second of a two part series on the University of Pennsylvania’s inaugural Penn Global Seminars, two professors share how they crossed schools and disciplines to co-teach a course with an embedded short study-abroad trip to Paris.)

At first glance, it might seem that community gardening and beryllium isotopes have little in common.

Cecil Balmond is the recipient of the 2016 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.  He is professor of practice in architecture and the former Paul Philippe Cret Chair of Architecture in the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design.

Frederick “Fritz” Steiner will be the next dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, effective July 1.