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Amanda Mott
Associate Director for News
ammott@upenn.edu
The University-wide report outlines progress during the last year toward sustainability goals made in academics, waste minimization, utilities and operations, purchasing, transportation, and outreach and engagement.
At a ceremonial groundbreaking, Dean Fritz Steiner, Stuart Weitzman, President Liz Magill, and Matt Nord of the School’s board of advisors joined guests to celebrate the future renovation and expansion of the 130-year-old Weitzman School of Design building now named Stuart Weitzman Hall.
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new season and a planned building expansion. Penn Today looks back at the Center’s history—and where it’s going under Penn Live Arts.
A Sept. 7 event celebrated the building’s new incarnation as a centrally located space dedicated exclusively to cultural resource centers and affiliate groups.
With students arriving on Penn’s campus this week to move into the College Houses, Penn Today has compiled links to resources and statistics about the campus Move-In experience.
Campus may have depopulated for the summer, but construction workers have moved in to begin or accelerate work on projects both big and small. Here, an overview of what’s in progress on Penn’s campus—and beyond.
The newly named college house at 40th and Walnut streets honors Penn’s eighth president.
More than a century old, the American elm located in the heart of the Quadrangle residences has been ailing and is due to be removed the week of July 25. The site will be replanted at a later date with three native white oaks.
Honoring Earth Week, Penn Dining and the Penn Food and Wellness Collaborative teamed up to create a vegetable-forward menu for Quaker Kitchen, sourcing produce from local purveyors to highlight what’s currently growing on the quarter-acre Penn Park Farm.
A groundbreaking ceremony kicked off a $35.6 million Graduate School of Education expansion project that includes the renovation of two 1965 buildings. The new spaces are expected to open in August 2023.
Amanda Mott
Associate Director for News
ammott@upenn.edu
A study by Susan Wachter and Shane Jenson of the Wharton School finds that cleaning vacant lots in Philadelphia neighborhoods increased property values for nearby homes.
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Susan Wachter of the Wharton School expects home prices to fall 5% to 10% nationally in 2023 but find a floor as markets gain confidence that inflation is under control.
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Susan Wachter of the Wharton School says that banks’ shift away from involvement in the mortgage market has been driven by the growth of regulations on banks around mortgage lending.
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The University of Pennsylvania Health System and Virtua Health held a grand opening ceremony for their $45 million proton therapy center in Voorhees, seven years after the beginning of their clinical partnership.
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The Penn Bookstore is noted as one of the few public evening spaces remaining after the pandemic, with remarks from Associate Vice President Anthony P. Sorrentino and Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice.
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Susan Wachter of the Wharton School says that Blackstone’s limit on withdrawals and Wells Fargo’s mass cutting of employees are realistic pullback responses to overall economic weakness and rising interest rates.
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