An almost total eclipse of the sun at Penn nocred An almost total eclipse of the sun at Penn Thousands gather on campus to witness the celestial spectacle on April 8.
Penn students react to rare East Coast earthquake nocred Penn students react to rare East Coast earthquake An earthquake with the preliminary magnitude of 4.8 centered in New Jersey was felt up and down the East Coast on Friday, including on Penn’s campus.
‘Unpacking the Past’ at the Penn Museum nocred ‘Unpacking the Past’ at the Penn Museum Celebrating its 10th year, the program funds and manages field trips to the Museum for about 6,000 Philadelphia middle schoolers a year.
The West Philadelphia Collaborative History Project chronicles a community’s past A vintage postcard featuring the Crystal Pool at Woodside Park amusement park in West Philadelphia. (Image: Courtesy of Penn GSE) The West Philadelphia Collaborative History Project chronicles a community’s past Sponsored by Penn’s Graduate School of Education, the project is a digital repository of neighborhood, institutional, and community histories.
Penn celebrates operation and benefits of largest solar power project in Pennsylvania Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, FRES Senior Vice President Anne Papageorge, Interim President J. Larry Jameson, and AES Senior Director of Origination Walter Crenshaw cut a ribbon to celebrate the operation of the Great Cove I and II solar facilities. nocred Penn celebrates operation and benefits of largest solar power project in Pennsylvania Solar production has begun at the Great Cove I and II facilities in central Pennsylvania, the equivalent of powering 70% of the electricity demand from Penn’s academic campus and health system in the Philadelphia area.
Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia’s Market Street East searches for growth and renewal — with or without a new Sixers arena Akira Drake Rodriguez, Rashida Ng, and Dominic Vitiello of the Weitzman School of Design say there should be a more robust and inclusive conversation about the future of Philadelphia’s Market Street East. Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions Fourth-year Ph.D. student Jacqueline Wallis, middle, facilitated an exercise during Philosophy Club after school at the Academy at Palumbo, with high school students Leila Salama, left, and Marty Signes, right. nocred Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions Ph.D. students Jacqueline Wallis and Afton Greco are embedded at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia, where they give philosophy lessons on curriculum-relevant topics and run an after-school Philosophy Club. Act 135 nonprofits bust blight. Vulnerable owners pay the price Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Act 135 nonprofits bust blight. Vulnerable owners pay the price A Penn Carey Law analysis found that Act 135 petitions in Philadelphia have disproportionately been filed against Black and Asian property owners. ‘Ladysitting’ on stage Lorene Cary (center) with actor Melanye Finister (right) and the Arden's Terry Nolen (left) at the Kelly Writers House. Image: Delaney Parks ‘Ladysitting’ on stage The new play “Ladysitting” at the Arden Theatre Co. is by Penn English faculty and alumna Lorene Cary, based on her memoir about caring for her grandmother in the last of her 101 years. A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods says that the interment of 19 Black Philadelphians at Eden Cemetery represents a reckoning with the Museum’s colonial past and an act of reconciliation with the local community. Load More
Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions Fourth-year Ph.D. student Jacqueline Wallis, middle, facilitated an exercise during Philosophy Club after school at the Academy at Palumbo, with high school students Leila Salama, left, and Marty Signes, right. nocred Penn’s ‘philosophers in residence’ engage Philadelphia youth with the hard questions Ph.D. students Jacqueline Wallis and Afton Greco are embedded at the Academy at Palumbo in South Philadelphia, where they give philosophy lessons on curriculum-relevant topics and run an after-school Philosophy Club.
Act 135 nonprofits bust blight. Vulnerable owners pay the price Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer Act 135 nonprofits bust blight. Vulnerable owners pay the price A Penn Carey Law analysis found that Act 135 petitions in Philadelphia have disproportionately been filed against Black and Asian property owners. ‘Ladysitting’ on stage Lorene Cary (center) with actor Melanye Finister (right) and the Arden's Terry Nolen (left) at the Kelly Writers House. Image: Delaney Parks ‘Ladysitting’ on stage The new play “Ladysitting” at the Arden Theatre Co. is by Penn English faculty and alumna Lorene Cary, based on her memoir about caring for her grandmother in the last of her 101 years. A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods says that the interment of 19 Black Philadelphians at Eden Cemetery represents a reckoning with the Museum’s colonial past and an act of reconciliation with the local community. Load More
‘Ladysitting’ on stage Lorene Cary (center) with actor Melanye Finister (right) and the Arden's Terry Nolen (left) at the Kelly Writers House. Image: Delaney Parks ‘Ladysitting’ on stage The new play “Ladysitting” at the Arden Theatre Co. is by Penn English faculty and alumna Lorene Cary, based on her memoir about caring for her grandmother in the last of her 101 years.
A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making Penn In the News Philadelphia Inquirer A burial for 19 Black Philadelphians, 200 years in the making Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods says that the interment of 19 Black Philadelphians at Eden Cemetery represents a reckoning with the Museum’s colonial past and an act of reconciliation with the local community.