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Perry World House
‘Advocate for the hearing of the truth’ on climate change
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a Global Order Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Perry World House and a former deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy, encouraged scientists to tell policymakers what they know about climate change, to help shape regulations and policy decisions.
Unpacking Philadelphia’s response to shifting immigration policies
At Perry World House, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney sat down with former City Solicitor Sozi Tulante, a PWH Visiting Fellow, to discuss the administration’s role in significant immigration-policy decisions.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein named Perry World House Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence
In addition to his residency at PWH, Penn’s global policy research institute, Al Hussein will also co-teach a class at the Penn Law School during the spring semester.
Staging the plague
Eighty-one students training in a diversity of health professions worked with regional and federal agencies to confront an imagined outbreak scenario centered around bubonic plague in Philadelphia.
The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’
During the next two years, Penn IREF will award as much as $2 million in matching research grants to Penn faculty to stimulate and support research activity in India.
Educational leaders examine the ‘University of the Future’
“Beyond the Walls: The University of the Future” brought scholars, administrators, and technology experts together to discuss the future of higher education and the disruption of the traditional “brick and mortar” college campus.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Nick Clegg meets with students from across the U.K.
During a visit to campus for the Penn Biden Leaders Dialogue, the former deputy prime minister met privately with graduate and undergraduate students to discuss global politics and the United Kingdom’s rapidly changing role.
Bringing the world to Penn
Perry World House’s two-day colloquium, “Competing Visions of the Global Order,” featured important conversations with eminent world leaders, and concluded with the Penn Biden Leaders Dialogue.
Is ‘Democracy in Trouble?’
“Democracy in Trouble?” is the focus of a year’s worth of programming at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. Its 2018-19 Speaker Series examines and counters trends regarding the ongoing threats to democracy in the United States and around the world.
Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center
In her new role, Redrobe will oversee the Center's public programs, and the research work of 29 faculty, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows, and oversee Penn Global collaboration with the Perry World House.
In the News
The Washington Post
A New U.S. Policy Makes It (Somewhat) Easier to Export Drones
Michael Horowitz of the School of Arts and Sciences and Perry World House and Joshua Schwartz, a doctoral candidate in Arts and Sciences, analyzed the administration’s policy changes around drone exports.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Strives to Be a Reassuring Voice to Allies in a Chaotic Time
Perry World House fellow Derek Chollet and the School of Arts and Sciences’ Mitchell Orenstein weighed in on Mattis’ impact on U.S. military alliances.
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