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Project grants and faculty awards from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Artists, poets, centers and professors were awarded fellowships and grants to fund future projects, installations, and various works of art that will enrich cultural programs and public art.

Reclaiming a fragmented history

Digital humanities scholars are orchestrating an epic crowdsourcing effort to sort and transcribe handwriting on thousands of documents discarded hundreds of years ago, known as the Cairo Geniza.

The University of Pennsylvania hosted the 2018 Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching conference.

Digital humanities ‘summer camp’ comes to Penn

The Price Lab for Digital Humanities and the Penn Libraries hosted HILT, an annual national training institute that brings together professionals from a number of disciplines.

In Philadelphia and Around the Country, Overdoses at Public Libraries are a Daunting Reality

Carolyn Cannuscio of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI), Roxanne Dupuis of CPHI, and Eliza Whiteman of Penn’s Healthy Library Initiative co-authored a call for more support and resources from public health, social service, and health care institutions in tackling overdoses at public libraries.

Vice Provost and Director of Penn Libraries Constantia Constantinou

Constantia Constantinou appointed vice provost and director of Penn Libraries

Penn Provost Wendell Pritchett today announced the appointment of Constantia Constantinou as the H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries, effective August 1.

Scans Reveal Secrets of Medieval ‘Harry Potter’ Book and Medical Texts at Penn

Erin Connelly of the Libraries is working with other experts to identify old stains in a centuries-old medical text using multi-spectral imaging. The results of their studies suggest that the tomes were actively used in medicine and alchemy, a predecessor to chemistry.

Penn English Professor Peter Stallybrass 2018

A life of books

Books define the life of Peter Stallybrass, an English professor who has retired after 30 years at Penn, known for his History of Material Texts workshop. He explains the five seminal books of his storied academic career.

Penn Libraries curator Nicholas Herman with medieval manuscript.

Astronomical find

Penn Libraries has acquired a rare astronomical treatise dated 1481, with unique diagrams in the margins, and original discs of parchment that turn to demonstrate the movement of the sun, moon, and planets.

A Tempo: Expanding Access to Marian Anderson's Legacy

The Penn Libraries’ Kislak Center houses ephemera from the life of Marian Anderson, the first African-American woman to sing a lead role in The Metropolitan Opera. The Center’s David McKnight spoke with WWFM about a new grant funding the digitization of the Anderson collection. (Audio)

Penn Professors Sarah Guérin, Mary Caldwell, Ada Maria Kuskowski

A medieval confluence

Three newly-hired Penn assistant professors, all transplants to Philadelphia, found each other soon after they arrived and discovered that, although they were in different areas of study, they all focused on the Middle Ages, specifically 13th-century France.

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