Education, Business, & Law

Fels Institute of Government Hosts Final Round of Penn Public Policy Challenge

On March 2, five teams of University of Pennsylvania students with new public policy ideas for Philadelphia will compete in the final round of competition in the Fels Institute of Government’s annual Penn Public Policy Challenge.

After a Decade, Penn Institute of Urban Research Celebrates Partnerships and Progress

With the number of city dwellers expected to double in the next 30 years, bringing the tally to 7 billion city inhabitants worldwide, urbanization poses a wide range of critical issues, including housing, education, food security, energy, crime, economic development, income equality and public health.

Penn IUR Hosts Dialogue: Building Scholarship Critical to Building a Sustainable Urban Future

Penn IUR Hosts Program on City Soundscapes: Music, Words & Identities in Urban America

WHAT:In City Soundscapes: Music, Words & Identities in Urban America, a Penn Institute for Urban Research Seminar highlighting the 10-year anniversary of Penn IUR, Nick Spitzer, producer of NPR’s “

Penn Prof Explores Black Genius Through the Lens of Jazz Great Bud Powell’s Life

In 1994 when Guthrie Ramsey completed his dissertation on legendary jazz pianist Bud Powell, he didn’t turn the thesis into a book manuscript right away.

Wendell Pritchett Named a Presidential Term Professor at Penn

Wendell E. Pritchett, chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden and a former University of Pennsylvania Law School professor, will return to the Penn faculty as a Presidential Term Professor.

Penn Lightbulb Café Presents Tukufu Zuberi on ‘The Other African-Americans’

WHO: Tukufu Zuberi

Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy Helps Donors With ‘Saving Children’s Lives’

Every year, nearly seven million children will die from preventable causes like diarrhea, pneumonia or measles before they reach the age of 5.

John Legend to Speak at Penn’s 258th Commencement

John Legend, a nine-time Grammy Award-winning soul artist, philanthropist and Penn alumnus will deliver the address at the University of Pennsylvania’s Commencement on Monday, May 19, Leslie Laird Kruhly, Vice President and University Secretary announced.

A Penn Professor’s Year at the Pentagon Informs His Teaching

Michael C. Horowitz, an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, is back on campus after spending 2013 at the Department of Defense working as a government insider on national security issues that he had previously studied as an academic outsider.

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