Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann will moderate a panel of scholars from across the University as they discuss a sustainable environment as part of Penn’s annual Founder’s Day Symposium, 3-5 p.m., Friday, Jan. 16.

PHILADELPHIA –- University of Pennsylvania freshmen John O'Malley and Will Son, have been selected as best-video winners in a national contest run by Facing Up, a non-partisan project exploring long-term challenges of the federal budget. They will share a cash prize of $500.

PHILADELPHIA — The Brookings Institution tops the U.S. list in a first-ever ranking of the world’s best think tanks.

PHILADELPHIA -- An Iranian legal scholar has been released from custody after being detained by Iran for several months as he awaited U.S. visa clearance to travel to Philadelphia as a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

PHILADELPHIA — A six-month citizen dialogue about regional arts and culture from the University of Pennsylvania’s Project for Civic Engagement will wrap up with “The Big Canvas Confab,” Saturday, Dec. 6, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Radisson Valley Forge Hotel and Convention Center in King of Prussia, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA –- Abigail Seldin, a student at the University of Pennsylvania and co-curator of an exhibition on the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, has been awarded a 2009 Rhodes Scholarship.

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