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Interior of a reading room in the Fisher Fine Arts Library.

James Ker and students are helping Latin live

The professor of classical studies researches new approaches to teaching the language that reflects the 21st century.

Weitzman’s Daniela Fabricius on architecture, labor, and history

The architectural theorist and historian is teaching a class titled Architecture and Labor while working on two books, including “The Ethics of Calculation: Architecture and Rationalism in Postwar Germany.”

New Eastern Mediterranean Gallery opens at the Penn Museum

Featuring 400 objects that span a period of 4,000 years, the Penn Museum is opening its new Eastern Mediterranean Gallery, the latest step in a multi-year building transformation.

Three portraits in a row of Jeremy Siegel.

Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel: Up close with an icon

With the release of an updated edition of his classic book “Stocks for the Long Run,” the emeritus finance professor reflects on his career, the stock market, and the school he’s called home for more than four decades.

Two people sit outside on a bench talking

Closing the tenure gap for business faculty of color

Founded by two professors and Wharton alumni, The Tenure Project is on a mission to help more underrepresented junior business faculty receive tenure across the country.

Paulo Arratia and Evelyn Thomson, physicists at Penn

Two Penn faculty elected American Physical Society fellows

Paulo Arratia of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and Evelyn Thomson of the School of Arts & Sciences received the honor of being elected by their peers in recognition of their contributions to the field.

An exhibition by Ken Lum of a purple couch with four sides and two prints hanging on the wall.

Ken Lum on art and controversy

The Marilyn Jordan Taylor Presidential Professor and Chair of Fine Arts at the Weitzman School, who has solo art exhibitions in New York and Ontario, discusses his art and controversy surrounding it.

People waving towels in the air while seated at tables.

Penn’s Way charitable campaign supports those in need

President Liz Magill along with Penn’s Way co-chairs Maureen Rush and Patricia Sullivan recently kicked off the 2023 Penn’s Way campaign.

Al Filreis holds up the Book "The Difference is Spreading" while seated at a long table with four other people to his left and a television screen with the faces of several other people to his right in front of an audience

ModPo celebrates its first decade

Modern and Contemporary Poetry was founded by Al Filreis of the School of Arts & Sciences at Kelly Writers House in 2012, and now has 69,000 people enrolled globally. Poets and participants came to campus to celebrate the 10th anniversary.

Mary Channen Caldwell and the cover of her book titled Devotional Refrain in Medieval Latin Song.

Listen on repeat: Exploring medieval refrain songs

Music professor Mary Channen Caldwell brings together over 400 devotional Latin refrain songs from the Middle Ages in her new book, the first to explore the medieval refrain in song outside of vernacular contexts.

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