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Get out the student vote
A volunteer with Penn Leads the Vote talks with a student outside on College Green

Penn Leads the Vote set up tables on College Green on Sept. 24, National Voter Registration Day, to encourage the Penn community to register to vote.

Get out the student vote

Penn Leads the Vote, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and the Office of Government and Community Affairs work in tandem to make Penn a civic-minded population of voters in all elections.
‘Power of design’
Two people pulling cloth off of bronze bust next to a podium with third person looking on

A bronze bust of Stuart Weitzman is unveiled by Dean Fritz Steiner (left) and President Amy Gutmann, while Weitzman (right) looks on during the Stuart Weitzman School of Design naming celebration. 

‘Power of design’

In a ceremony Thursday afternoon, President Amy Gutmann celebrated the naming of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and Stuart Weitzman Plaza. Weitzman, the designer and footwear industry icon, graduated from the Wharton School in 1963.
Classical studies professor Emily Wilson receives MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Professor leaning against a stone wall with a tree behind her.

Emily Wilson, a classical studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. (Photo: Kyle Cassidy) 

Classical studies professor Emily Wilson receives MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Professor of Classical Studies Emily Wilson has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, receiving what is known as the “genius grant.”
Penn’s Way kicks off new workplace giving campaign, with $1.7M goal
Gutmann kicks off Penn's Way campaign

Penn’s Way kicks off new workplace giving campaign, with $1.7M goal

The 2019 Penn’s Way campaign kicked off with a celebration at Houston Hall. From Oct. 1 through Nov. 15, faculty and staff are encouraged to donate to the 15,000-plus participating agencies.

Lauren Hertzler

New technologies and their global impact
John Kerry addresses the crowd while seated on stage at the Perry World House Fall Colloquium

New technologies and their global impact

Former Secretary of State John Kerry joined former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and other guests at Perry World House’s third annual Fall Colloquium to discuss “How Emerging Technologies Are Rewiring the Global Order.”

Pairing science with ethics to save lives
Moreno and AG on stage

Pairing science with ethics to save lives

Penn President Amy Gutmann and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Jonathan Moreno discussed their new book “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die” at a Free Library of Philadelphia book talk Monday.

Lauren Hertzler

Gutmann and Moreno talk bioethics, health care in new book
penn president amy gutmann and jonathan moreno

Gutmann and Moreno talk bioethics, health care in new book

The University’s president, a political philosopher, teamed up with a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor to write “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die.”

Lauren Hertzler

Bioethics and changing health care
Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane (WHYY-FM)

Bioethics and changing health care

President Amy Gutmann and PIK Professor Jonathan Moreno discussed the role of bioethics in contemporary medicine and their new book, “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die.”

Lauder College House named
William and Ronald Lauder assist President Amy Gutmann in the revealing of the Lauder College House name.

Lauder College House named

The new name was revealed at a ceremony celebrating the house’s first cohort of fourth-year residents, along with incoming Class of 2023 and second- and third-year residents.