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2024 Sachs awardees
Stylized speakers and a blue silhouette of a person.

Justin Gotzis of University Life received an award from The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation to develop “Puck,” a sculptural speaker system that reflects on the “Freetekno” movement.

(Image: Justin Gotzis)

2024 Sachs awardees

At a reception on April 30, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation recognized the 21 projects awarded grants for the 2023-24 cycle, totaling $210,000 in support.
Combining the skills of engineering and design

Janice Kim.

Janice Kim, a fourth-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

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Combining the skills of engineering and design


Janice Kim, a fourth-year student in the College of Arts & Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, will graduate as the first Penn student to have a dual degree in computer science and design.
Weitzman’s Sanya Carley on energy justice
Sanya Carley.

Sanya Carley, Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning.

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Weitzman’s Sanya Carley on energy justice

The Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning believes that energy justice should be a central part of America’s energy transition.

From the Weitzman School of Design

An ambassador with big plans
Trevian AMbroise.

Trevian Ambroise is a graduate student ambassador for Penn’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

(Image: Courtesy of Weitzman News)

An ambassador with big plans

Originally from Louisiana, Trevian Ambroise, a graduate student ambassador for Penn’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, chose Philadelphia as the place to study economic development techniques to become a well-rounded planner.

Picturing artistic pursuits
students working with clay slabs at a table

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Picturing artistic pursuits

Hundreds of undergraduates take classes in the fine arts each semester, among them painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, printmaking and animation, photography and videography. The courses, through the School of Arts & Sciences and the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in an art form in a collaborative way.

Louisa Shepard

The Penn-China architectural connection
Lin Huiyin with Liang Sicheng at the Temple of Heaven

Lin Huiyin with Liang Sicheng at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, c. 1936.

(Image: Fisher Fine Arts Library Image Collection)

The Penn-China architectural connection

Penn’s Weitzman School of Design has a long history of collaboration in China, and large number of Chinese international students are undertaking adaptive reuse and historical preservation projects.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Penn celebrates operation and benefits of largest solar power project in Pennsylvania
interim president larry jameson at solar panel ribbon cutting

Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, FRES Senior Vice President Anne Papageorge, Interim President J. Larry Jameson, and AES Senior Director of Origination Walter Crenshaw cut a ribbon to celebrate the operation of the Great Cove I and II solar facilities.

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Penn celebrates operation and benefits of largest solar power project in Pennsylvania

Solar production has begun at the Great Cove I and II facilities in central Pennsylvania, the equivalent of powering 70% of the electricity demand from Penn’s academic campus and health system in the Philadelphia area.
Imagining a sustainable future in Southern Greenland
Two long, two-story buildings located off of a gravel road. Two smokestacks are in the foreground.

The Narsarsuaq Hotel, a former military barracks located a few hundred feet from the Narsarsuaq Airport (a former military airfield), and the diesel power plant in Narsaq. The town is one of the only settlements in South Greenland still powered by diesel instead of hydro-electric power.

(Image: Billy Fleming)

Imagining a sustainable future in Southern Greenland

Billy Fleming and landscape architecture students in the Weitzman School of Design brainstormed possibilities for a green economy in a former mining town in one of the fastest-warming regions on Earth.

Kristina Linnea García

At Shenandoah National Park, the past, present, and future of a historic center of Black life
A historical photo of a group from Washington, D.C. traveling through Shenandoah National Park.

Lewis Mountain was the center of Black life at Shenandoah National Park during the late 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Under Jim Crow, it was the only area designed to offer overnight accommodations to Black visitors. It was also the only area within the park run by and for Black campers, providing a safe space for recreation. This undated historic photo shows a group from Washington, D.C. traveling through Shenandoah National Park.

(Image: Personal collection of Reed Engle, National Park Service)

At Shenandoah National Park, the past, present, and future of a historic center of Black life

The Urban Heritage Project, an initiative of the Weitzman School’s Department of Historic Preservation, is working with the National Park Service to evaluate historically segregated cabin camps as nationally significant cultural heritage sites.

From the Weitzman School of Design

What’s That? Sun shades at the Vagelos Lab
Sun shades attached to building windows.

The sun shades on the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology.

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What’s That? Sun shades at the Vagelos Lab

The shades account for solar geometry to make for an eye-catching view from the east and west—all while reducing energy usage.