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Earth Week offers immersive opportunities to connect with nature
Two people with farming tools work in a field in an urban environment

Multiple opportunities during Earth Week will give members of the Penn community a chance to get their hands dirty in nature, including an orchard work day and a volunteer day at Penn Park Farm. (Image: Kylie Cooper)

Earth Week offers immersive opportunities to connect with nature

Organized by Penn Sustainability, Earth Week, with nearly 50 events running April 17-24, offers a diverse slate of both in-person and online chances to learn about and engage with the environment.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
four faculty faces

Four Penn faculty have been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. They are (left to right, top to bottom) Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English, all in the School of Arts & Sciences.

Four Penn faculty awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Four faculty have been named 2022 Guggenheim Fellows—Daniel Barber in architecture in the Weitzman School of Design and Kimberly Bowes in classical studies, Guthrie Ramsey in music, and Paul Saint-Amour in English in the School of Arts & Sciences.

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Creating global systems for evidence-informed oral health policy
Dental faculty member Alonso Carrasco-Labra

With a background in evidence-based medicine and dentistry, Alonso Carrasco-Labra brings unique skills and perspective to the School of Dental Medicine.

(Image: Kevin Monko)

Creating global systems for evidence-informed oral health policy

Alonso Carrasco-Labra, who joined the School of Dental Medicine in 2021, is a leader in developing new policy and clinical guidelines across areas of medicine.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Climate scientist Michael Mann to join Penn faculty
Michael E. Mann.

Michael E. Mann is Penn’s inaugural Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science. (Image: Joshua Yospin)

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Climate scientist Michael Mann to join Penn faculty

Mann is the first new faculty member to be recruited as part of the recently announced Energy and Sustainability Initiative as a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Links between diet and cancer
Kathryn Wellen in her lab.

Kathryn E. Wellen, an associate professor of cancer biology and principal investigator of the Wellen Lab.

Links between diet and cancer

Kathryn E. Wellen, an associate professor of Cancer Biology and principal investigator of the Wellen Lab, seeks answers to find the connections between metabolism and cancer biology.

From Penn Medicine News

Penn Law reacts to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a U.S. Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in her office at the court in Washington. (Image: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Penn Law reacts to the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

President Joe Biden has selected the Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as his nominee to the Supreme Court.

From Penn Carey Law

Black histories and Black futures
students in lecture hall

Homepage image: Chinaza Okonkwo of Los Angeles was one of 65 students enrolled in the 2018 Africana Studies Summer Institute, now in its 36th year. The Institute is one of the hallmarks of the Africana Studies Department. 

Black histories and Black futures

Professors and students reflect on 50 years of Black studies at Penn.

Kristina Linnea García

Robert Gerard Pietrusko on landscape design, spatial modeling, and conspiracy theories
Person standing in front of two giant panels of film projected on the wall of NASA footage of a storm on planet Earth.

Still from In Plain Sight, a geospatial documentary that critiques the NASA “night lights” dataset and reveals locations with lights and no people, and locations with populations living in the dark. (Image: Weitzman News)

Robert Gerard Pietrusko on landscape design, spatial modeling, and conspiracy theories

Robert Gerard Pietrusko joined the standing faculty of the Department of Landscape Architecture as an associate professor, and teaches a landscape architecture studio called Conspiracy as Method, which looks at a number of natural disasters that have been attributed to climate change.

From the Weitzman School of Design

Two Penn faculty named 2022 Sloan Research Fellows
side by side portraits of yuxin chen and deep jariwala

Yuxin Chen (left) from the Wharton School and Deep Jariwala from the School of Engineering and Applied Science have been selected to receive 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships. This prestigious award recognizes extraordinary early-career researchers for their creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.

Two Penn faculty named 2022 Sloan Research Fellows

Yuxin Chen and Deep Jariwala have been recognized for their creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments as members of the next generation of scientific leaders.

Erica K. Brockmeier