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Michael X. Delli Carpini named interim dean of Annenberg School for Communication
Michael Delli Carpini.

Michael Delli Carpini.

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Michael X. Delli Carpini named interim dean of Annenberg School for Communication

The Oscar H. Gandy Emeritus Professor of Communication and Democracy at the Annenberg School, and dean from 2003 to 2018, Delli Carpini is currently concluding a term as the inaugural faculty director of Penn’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program.
Penn welcomes energy justice scholar Sanya Carley
Sanya Carley.

Image: Courtesy of the Weitzman School

Penn welcomes energy justice scholar Sanya Carley

Carley will be the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning in the Weitzman School with an affiliation with the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Remembering Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte in 1981.

Harry Belafonte speaking for peace and against nuclear weapons in 1981 in Bonn, Germany.

(Image: Klaus Rose/AP Images)

Remembering Harry Belafonte

Tukufu Zuberi describes meeting the musician-turned-activist, plus how Belafonte used his talents for good and what legacy he leaves behind.

Michele W. Berger

Laurie Olin: Drawing on nature
Laurie Olin and a student in Woodland Cemetery, with drawing supplies.

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Laurie Olin: Drawing on nature

The famed landscape architect teaches final-semester Weitzman School of Design students the art of sketching.

Louisa Shepard

When robots touch the world
Robotic hand playing a piano.

Image: iStock/Iaremenko

When robots touch the world

Penn Engineering’s Michael Posa discusses robotics in the age of artificial intelligence, the ambulatory genius of toddlers, navigating the unfamiliar and the elegance of not learning everything.

From Penn Engineering Today

Symposium highlights breadth and depth of Penn Global research
A panel sits at at table in Perry World House as a presenter on the right stands at a podium explaining his research.

Bodong Chen of the Graduate School of Education (right, at podium) discusses his project that focuses on helping integrate sustainable development goals into schools in China.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Global)

Symposium highlights breadth and depth of Penn Global research

The Penn Global Research and Engagement Fund is supporting the 19 new faculty-led projects that span research, capacity-building, and development efforts across Africa, Latin America, India, China, and beyond. 

Kristen de Groot

Olivia S. Mitchell named AEA Distinguished Fellow
Olivia Mitchell.

Olivia Mitchell, professor of business economics and public policy at the Wharton School.

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Olivia S. Mitchell named AEA Distinguished Fellow

The American Economic Association has named Olivia S. Mitchell of the Wharton School as a 2023 Distinguished Fellow for her seminal research on pensions, Social Security, retirement, and financial literacy.
Four from Penn elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Headshots of David Brainard, Duncan Watts, Susan R. Weiss, and Kenneth S. Zaret

Newly elected members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, (clockwise from top left) David Brainard from the School of Arts & Sciences; Duncan Watts from the Annenberg School for Communication, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Wharton School; Kenneth S. Zaret; and Susan R. Weiss, both from the Perelman School of Medicine.

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Four from Penn elected to the National Academy of Sciences

The newly elected members, distinguished scholars recognized for their innovative contributions to original research, include faculty from the School of Arts & Sciences, Perelman School of Medicine, Annenberg School for Communication, and Wharton School.
Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023
five individual portraits in a composite

The Academy of Arts and Sciences elected five Penn faculty this year, (left to right): (top) Mirjam Cvetič of the School of Arts & Sciences (SAS); Nader Engheta of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and SAS; and Vivian L. Gadsden of the Graduate School of Education and SAS; (bottom) Petra E. Todd of SAS, and E. John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine.

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Five from Penn elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023

Faculty from the School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Graduate School of Education, and Perelman School of Medicine are recognized this year for contributions to physics, engineering and technology, education, economics, and microbiology and immunology.

Kristen de Groot , Louisa Shepard , Katherine Unger Baillie

Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’
Sonal Khullar inspects the flyleaf from 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Sonal Khullar inspects the flyleaf of an illustrated copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ a favorite book from her childhood.

(Image: Dan Horan.)

  • Q&A

    • Sonal Khullar on books, art, and ‘love in the stacks’

    The history of South Asian art professor discusses books, art, and love through her edited volume “Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in South Asia.”

    Kristina Linnea García