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A study in black and white
William Kentridge at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery

Coffeepots are one of the themes in the work by South African artist William Kentridge on view at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery through Nov. 11. 

A study in black and white

The Arthur Ross Gallery’s current exhibition features 58 linocut prints by South African artist William Kentridge. Created with black ink on type-filled dictionary pages, the prints depict objects that are iconic in the artist’s work, including coffee pots, typewriters, trees, birds, and cats. The exhibit is on display through Nov. 11.
Penn Engineering groups awarded NSF grants to work toward ‘quantum leap’
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Two teams in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have received NSF grants for research in quantum information science, which explores how to send and store secure information at the nanometer level.

Penn Engineering groups awarded NSF grants to work toward ‘quantum leap’

One group will design robust, integrated quantum memory devices based on defects in diamond, and the other group will develop materials to encode and decode quantum information in single photons. These technologies will be part of the safest and most secure information network ever seen.

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Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center
Penn professor Karen Redrobe

Karen Redrobe is the new director of Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center. (Photo by Lua Beckman) 

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    • Q&A with Karen Redrobe, new director of the Wolf Humanities Center

    In her new role, Redrobe will oversee the Center's public programs, and the research work of 29 faculty, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows, and oversee Penn Global collaboration with the Perry World House.
    Returning to Vietnam
    Vietnam

    Photo: David Thai

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    Returning to Vietnam

    A child of Vietnamese refugees, David Thai has returned to his family’s homeland as a Fulbright Scholar, where he will teach English at the Hoang Le Kha High School for Gifted Students, in the southwestern region of Vietnam, a few hours from where his mother grew up.
    Chicago Furniture Bank is up and running, serving the community
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    Chicago Furniture Bank is up and running, serving the community

    Thanks to a President’s Engagement Prize, Andrew Witherspoon, James McPhail, and Griffin Amdur wasted no time after graduation getting their nonprofit off the ground.

    Lauren Hertzler

    Floating art installation brings Schuylkill River history to life
    Floating Archives

    On three Saturday evenings in September, Jacob Rivkin, an artist-in-residence with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, will be floating on the Schuylkill River, displaying hand-drawn animations on a screen suspended between two canoes. His work reflects past and present narratives about the waterway. (Photo: Aidan Un)

    Floating art installation brings Schuylkill River history to life

    Jacob Rivkin, an artist-in-residence for the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and an instructor in the School of Design, will present a public art installation on the Schuylkill River called “Floating Archives,” starting this weekend. (Video)

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    An oasis of compassion
    Mary Walton, Director of the Family Caregiver Center

    Mary Walton, director of the Family Caregiver Center, led the effort to establish the Center in 2015.

    An oasis of compassion

    Since 2015, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has supported the Family Caregiver Center, a three-room space that serves an array of needs, from resources to relaxation, for caregivers—one of only a few in the United States.
    From addiction and loss to recovery and empathy: Q&A with Nicole O’Donnell
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    From addiction and loss to recovery and empathy: Q&A with Nicole O’Donnell

    At Penn Medicine’s Center of Excellence, the certified recovery specialist reaches out to people who are addicted in need of support and guidance, drawing on her own experience to be uniquely helpful and intuitive for people who need the most help.

    Penn Today Staff

    Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill
    Penn School of Design professor Francesca Ammon

    Francesca Russello Ammon, a PennDesign assistant professor of city and regional planning, focused on Philadelphia's Society Hill neighborhood for her research on historic preservation. (Photo by Eric Sucar, University of Pennsylvania Communications)

    Preserving Philadelphia’s Society Hill

    The histories of more than 1,500 properties in a storied Philadelphia neighborhood are now accessible on the new website, “Preserving Society Hill.” Working with digital-humanities specialists in the Price Lab and the Libraries, PennDesign’s Francesca Ammon created an interactive map to document this innovative case study in urban renewal.
    Penn welcomes the Class of 2022
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    Penn welcomes the Class of 2022

    Hailing from 49 states (all but Wyoming), Puerto Rico, and 88 countries around the world, the 2,552 members of the Class of 2022 moved in to Penn on Aug. 22.