Stuart Weitzman School of Design

Volunteers in waders at the pond at Penn’s BioPond, one holds a frog.

With dozens of events, Climate Week 2024 will focus on solutions

The fifth Climate Week at Penn, designed to help people find their place in the climate movement, takes place Oct. 14-18.

An Amtrak Acela train with the Philadelphia city skyline in the background

The bullet train turns 60

In both Asia and Europe, high-speed rail knits regions, countries, and continents together. What will it take to see more rail infrastructure in the U.S.?

Catherine Seavitt (fourth from left) at a Spring 2024 studio review

‘A place of collaborative conversation’

On Sept. 26 and 27, the Weitzman School will host Landscape Futures: Centennial of the Department of Landscape Architecture, a two-day symposium to celebrate the department’s unique ecological foundations, its evolving curriculum, and its ongoing global influence on landscape architectural practice and education.

Sculptor Michelle Lopez sitting and talking in front of her sculpture and musician Tyshawn Sorey standing in front of a grafitti on a wall

Two Penn faculty awarded Pew Fellowships

Two Penn faculty -- installation artist and sculptor Michelle Lopez, and composer and musician Tyshawn Sorey -- each have been awarded one of 12 arts fellowships by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in Philadelphia.

2024 Presidential Ph.D. Fellows announced at Penn

The seven Fellows come from six schools at Penn, and will receive a three-year fellowship, including funds to support their research.

Hanzhong Luo has his body heat scanned in a cooling shelter prototype.

Testing a novel, community-driven response to heat islands in Philadelphia

Researchers from three University of Pennsylvania schools collaborated with a Hunting Park nonprofit to design, build, and test a prototype of a cooling shelter to place at a bus stop.

Penn students walking through Norris Square Neighborhood Project’s community garden.

How food moves around cities

Domenic Vitiello, an urban and regional planning expert, teaches classes that invite students to locations in and around Philadelphia to better understand how its denizens dine.

A climate expert’s return to Penn

Jen Wilcox, an expert on direct-air capture, is the inaugural faculty appointment in the Kleinman Center and served for three years as principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Fossil Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy. She discusses her time away and her return to Penn.

Overhead image of a table set with food and diners hands and arms cutting food and and eating.

Building community, one meal and conversation at a time

The Conversations for Community and Dinners Across Differences programs, launched last fall, foster spaces conducive for difficult conversations while recognizing shared humanity.

Nurturing nightlife in Music City

A new report from PennPraxis, VibeLab, and Culture Shift Team captures the vitality and vulnerability of Nashville's music scene.

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