Penn Design’s Mary Reid Kelly Receives MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Penn Design’s Mary Reid Kelly Receives MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Mary Reid Kelley, a senior critic in the Master of Fine Arts program in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania has been selected as a 2016 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Witnessing Geology’s Impact Firsthand With Penn in the Alps Witnessing Geology’s Impact Firsthand With Penn in the Alps Just as summer was winding down, around the time when many students were wrapping up internships and checking packing lists for a return to campus, 13 University of Pennsylvania undergraduates flew across an ocean and began acclimating to the thin air of the Swiss and Italian Alps.
Penn’s English Language Programs Teaches Philadelphia Union Players Penn’s English Language Programs Teaches Philadelphia Union Players The English Language Programs at the University of Pennsylvania often teaches in traditional classrooms, but, in a unique situation instructing international professional athletes, the language laboratory is sometimes on a soccer field.
Penn’s 2017 Kelly Writers House Fellows Announced Penn’s 2017 Kelly Writers House Fellows Announced The University of Pennsylvania will host Maria Bamford, Nathaniel Mackey and Lydia Davis as Kelly Writers House fellows during the spring 2017 semester.
Penn Alumna Pursues Global Human Rights Policy Through Perry World House Fellowship Penn Alumna Pursues Global Human Rights Policy Through Perry World House Fellowship As the inaugural Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, alumna Stephanie Herrmann has already had access to
New Photo Exhibition at Penn Features Historically Black Colleges and Universities New Photo Exhibition at Penn Features Historically Black Colleges and Universities The Burrison Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania will open a new exhibition Thursday, Sept. 8, featuring the photography of Penn alumnus Andrew Feiler, a 1984 Wharton graduate. The exhibition features photographs that depict Morris Brown College, one of the 105 historically black colleges and universities. Morris Brown was originally established in 1881 and was all but shut down in 2002 after years of fiscal hardship and a high-profile mismanagement scandal.
Broaden Urban Sustainability to Align Technical, Social Agendas Broaden Urban Sustainability to Align Technical, Social Agendas Current conversations about urban sustainability are too narrowly focused, ignoring regional and global impacts and leaving out key grassroots groups with social justice agendas.
Income and Wealth Inequality Make Recessions Worse, Penn Research Reveals Income and Wealth Inequality Make Recessions Worse, Penn Research Reveals “The Great Recession is the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. If you can’t make an argument that inequality matters for the severity of this downturn, then it’s unlikely to matter much for smaller recessions, or for normal times.”
Penn Rising Senior Sarah Eisler Explores Children’s Book Publishing and New York City Penn Rising Senior Sarah Eisler Explores Children’s Book Publishing and New York City Through a University of Pennsylvania internship, rising senior Sarah Eisler honed her skills and learned more about the children’s book publishing industry. Eisler spent eight weeks as an intern at Downtown Bookworks in New York City.
A Home for Architectural History A Home for Architectural History Earlier this summer, five architects and civil engineers traveled nearly 8,000 miles from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to visit Penn’s Architectural Archives. For weeks, they sought to uncover the intricacies of Louis I.