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Caring for the campus landscape with an ecological mindset
flowers in class of 1964 garden

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Caring for the campus landscape with an ecological mindset

The Ecological Landscape Stewardship Plan, developed in 2018, offers a framework for the Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services to design, maintain, and celebrate the beauty of the campus landscape with an emphasis on its role as a balanced ecological system.

Katherine Unger Baillie

Winners of President’s Sustainability Prize are making a difference for people and the planet
community grocer team Eli Moraru won the 2022 President’s Sustainability Prize for his work with Alex Imbot on The Community Grocer (TCG). Moraru and Imbot hope to launch a new business model, revolutionizing food stamp usage by reinventing the corner store and reimagining nutritional assistance.

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Winners of President’s Sustainability Prize are making a difference for people and the planet

Springboarded by University recognition and support, the alums behind the three prize-winning projects—Baleena, The Community Grocer, and Shinkei Systems—are realizing, even surpassing, their goals.

Katherine Unger Baillie, Kristina García, Nathi Magubane

Climate scientist Michael Mann makes a home at Penn
Michael Mann on Penn's campus

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    • Climate scientist Michael Mann makes a home at Penn

    Known for his “hockey stick” graph that hammered home the dramatic rise of the warming climate, the climate scientist is now making his mark on Penn’s campus, both through his science and his work on communicating the urgent need for action on the climate crisis.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    At Penn Energy Week, a time to reflect on energy science, technology, and policy
    Solar panels and three wind turbines set against a blue sky and setting sun.

    Image: iStock/hrui

    At Penn Energy Week, a time to reflect on energy science, technology, and policy

    Hosted by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and the Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology, the third annual Energy Week, which runs March 20-24, offers events on decarbonization, careers in the energy sector, global energy security, and more.

    Michele W. Berger, Lindsey Samahon

    The hidden costs of AI: Impending energy and resource strain
    Industrial landscape with electric power lines, hydroelectric dam and metallurgical plants with smoke in the sky.

    In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT have seen notable improvements, with some people concerned about the societal impacts these new technologies may bring including looming concerns related to increasing energy and raw materials demands.

    (Image: iStock/Alexey Tolmachov)

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    • The hidden costs of AI: Impending energy and resource strain

    AI models like ChatGPT have seen notable improvements, but some people are concerned about the societal impacts these new technologies may bring. Deep Jariwala and Benjamin C. Lee discuss energy and resource problems with AI computing.
    Clearing the air with biomaterials
    Laia Mogas-Soldevila leans over a railing to smell a hanging display at the ICA.

    “We were excited that it was a pleasant smell, had been historically mapped to human health, and could contribute to air quality,” Laia Mogas-Soldevila says of the aromatic lattice.

    Clearing the air with biomaterials

    Senseable Biomaterials for Healthier Habitats, a project led by assistant professor of architecture Laia Mogas-Soldevila, contributed a lattice installation made from architectural biomaterials to the ICA, acting as an antimicrobial air purifier.

    From the Weitzman School of Design

    Fashioning gender through the art and history of clothing
    Fashion sketches of models in sunglasses

    “It doesn’t matter who you are or where you live; everybody wears clothing or some sort of embellishment,” says Jacqui Sadashige. “For most of us, what we wear is our way of announcing to the world who we are.” (Image: Charlota Blunarova on Unsplash)

    Fashioning gender through the art and history of clothing

    Students learn about the history of clothing, embellishment as self-expression, and sustainable fashion innovation in a graduate course taught through the College of Liberal and Professional Studies.

    Kristina García

    Penn’s 2022 Green Purchasing Award recipients
    Tree branches on Penn’s campus.

    The accomplishments by the 2022 recipients of the Green Purchasing Award align with Penn’s Climate and Sustainability Action Plan 3.0.

    Penn’s 2022 Green Purchasing Award recipients

    Danielle Cavalcanto at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Division of Finance’s Disbursements Department are honored for significant solutions and novel practices for sustainability.