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Tackling climate change on all levels
Speakers on stage at Perry World House

Quito Mayor Mauricio Rodas, Claudia Vargas of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and PWH Director William Burke-White opened the event. (Photo: Andro Mathewson)

Tackling climate change on all levels

At the Perry World House Global Shifts Colloquium, experts from around the world discussed what governments, and individuals, can do to avoid the ultimate catastrophe.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

In Ethiopia, new perspectives on the challenges of development
Wharton students with Ethiopian school children

Wharton students Sophia Yang, John Wong, Jessica Loeb, Roberra Aklilu, and Misha Nasrollahzadeh with local children. (Photo courtesy: Roberra Aklilu)

In Ethiopia, new perspectives on the challenges of development

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel and Assistant Professor Heather Schofield led a group of Wharton students on a four-day trip to Ethiopia, for a close-up look at the African nation’s health, agricultural, business, and political sectors.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

Making a movement from #MeToo
Panelists at the "Grassroots Organizing in the MeToo Era" at Perry World House

Joanne N. Smith, Veronica Avila, Nadeen Spence, Veronica Gago, and Penn professor Deborah A. Thomas spoke to a packed room at Perry World House. 

Making a movement from #MeToo

At Perry World House Monday, activists from around the world talked about how they’re working to make sure the stories of women and girls are told—and heard.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

Russian hackers work several times faster than Chinese counterparts, new data shows

Russian hackers work several times faster than Chinese counterparts, new data shows

Michael Carpenter of the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement said Russian hackers are “the most aggressive and risk-tolerant because they’ve broken so many international norms and face so few repercussions that they don’t really believe there will be any serious consequences to their action.”

'Advocate for the hearing of the truth'
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall talking to Christopher Murray

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Global Order Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Perry World House, and PIK Professor Christopher Murray. (Photo: Felice Macera)

'Advocate for the hearing of the truth'

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a Global Order Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Perry World House and a former deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy, encouraged scientists to tell policymakers what they know about climate change, to help shape regulations and policy decisions.

Gwyneth K. Shaw

Unpacking Philadelphia’s response to shifting immigration policies
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney speaks about making Philadelphia welcoming to immigrants is important to his administration.

Before a packed audience at Perry World House, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (left) and PWH Visiting Fellow Sozi Tulante address the topic of immigration policy and the role of the city.

Unpacking Philadelphia’s response to shifting immigration policies

At Perry World House, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney sat down with former City Solicitor Sozi Tulante, a PWH Visiting Fellow, to discuss the administration’s role in significant immigration-policy decisions.
Staging the plague
Laurel Redding of the School of Veterinary Medicine writes on an easel as members of her table look on

Gathered in Fagin Hall for a daylong disease outbreak symposium, students worked across disciplines to devise strategies for containing a fictionalized infection. Laurel Redding, a School of Veterinary Medicine faculty member and event facilitator, writes up her group’s thoughts during a brainstorming session. 

Staging the plague

Eighty-one students training in a diversity of health professions worked with regional and federal agencies to confront an imagined outbreak scenario centered around bubonic plague in Philadelphia.

Katherine Unger Baillie

The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’
Women-chat-selling-at-Fish-Auction-dockside-in-Mumbai-India-photo-by-Photo by Rudolph A. Furtado, from Wikimedia Commons.

The IREF project “The Inhabited Sea,” led by Nikhil Anand in the School of Arts and Sciences and Anuradha Mathur in the School of Design, examines in part how populations such as the dock workers of Mumbai (pictured above) understand and negotiate their relationship with the rising seas that surround them. Photo by Rudolph A. Furtado, from Wikimedia Commons.

The inaugural India Research and Engagement Fund awards help further the ‘global university’

During the next two years, Penn IREF will award as much as $2 million in matching research grants to Penn faculty to stimulate and support research activity in India.
Educational leaders examine the ‘University of the Future’
University of the Future panel

The summit addressed how higher education must address the needs of a changing economy. Photo: Katherine Veri, Veri Productions

Educational leaders examine the ‘University of the Future’

“Beyond the Walls: The University of the Future” brought scholars, administrators, and technology experts together to discuss the future of higher education and the disruption of the traditional “brick and mortar” college campus.