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The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’
Women-chat-selling-at-Fish-Auction-dockside-in-Mumbai-India-photo-by-Photo by Rudolph A. Furtado, from Wikimedia Commons.

The IREF project “The Inhabited Sea,” led by Nikhil Anand in the School of Arts and Sciences and Anuradha Mathur in the School of Design, examines in part how populations such as the dock workers of Mumbai (pictured above) understand and negotiate their relationship with the rising seas that surround them. Photo by Rudolph A. Furtado, from Wikimedia Commons.

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’
University of the Future panel

The summit addressed how higher education must address the needs of a changing economy. Photo: Katherine Veri, Veri Productions

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.
Bringing the world to Penn
Panel on stage at Irvine Auditorium

The “National Visions” roundtable featured former Mexican President Felipe Calderón;  NPR international correspondent Deborah Amos; Catherine Ashton, former high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy; Princeton University professor Aaron Friedberg; and Richard Verma, former U.S. ambassador to India. 

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.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Nick Clegg meets with students from across the U.K.
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The Rt. Hon. Sir Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, met with about 30 Penn students from across the U.K. Photo by Eddy Marenco.

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.

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Is ‘Democracy in Trouble?’
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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
Penn professor Karen Redrobe

Karen Redrobe is the new director of Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center. (Photo by Lua Beckman) 

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    • 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.
    Third annual Penn Global Week fosters a world-minded campus
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    Penn Global Week’s 2017 Arts and Culture Showcase at Perry World House. Photo by Eddy Marenco

    Third annual Penn Global Week fosters a world-minded campus

    The four-day celebration, from Sept. 11-14, will feature an arts showcase, a brand-new story slam, a passport program, and an information fair.
    Bringing world leaders together around competing visions of the global order
    Joe Biden, Amy Gutmann, William Burke-White at Perry World House 2017 global order conference

    Joe Biden speaking at the inaugural Perry World House global order conference in 2017, accompanied on stage by PWH Director William Burke-White (left) and Penn President Amy Gutmann. 

    Bringing world leaders together around competing visions of the global order

    Former U.S. National Security Advisors H.R. McMaster and Susan Rice will be the headline speakers at a two-day Perry World House colloquium in September, with former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Nick Clegg participating in the Penn Biden Leaders Dialogue.