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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.

Katherine Unger Baillie

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. 

Jeanne Leong

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. 

Jeanne Leong

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.

Michele W. Berger

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.”

Michele W. Berger

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.

Lauren Hertzler