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VAST LIFE Program Expands Horizons of Students and Future Teachers

VAST LIFE Program Expands Horizons of Students and Future Teachers

Studying a map on his iPad, Owen Smith looks up at the street signs and back down at the map. He looks both ways, then turns right down 34th Street, the correct direction for his destination, the Penn Museum.The decision prompts praise from the group of students crowded around him on the street corner.

Louisa Shepard

Proposal to Address Opioid Addiction Wins 2017 Penn Public Policy Challenge

Proposal to Address Opioid Addiction Wins 2017 Penn Public Policy Challenge

A team of students from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice has won this year’s Penn Public Policy Challenge sponsored by the Fels Institute of Government with a proposal that provides a way to dispose unused prescription pain medication in drop

Jacquie Posey , Jessica Bautista

Penn Program in Environmental Humanities’ Event Explores the Idea of an ‘Ecotopian Toolkit’

Penn Program in Environmental Humanities’ Event Explores the Idea of an ‘Ecotopian Toolkit’

Prompted in part by the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, the “Ecotopian Toolkit” conference at the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate how utopian imaginaries from across disciplines can address environmental challenges.

Katherine Unger Baillie , Jacquie Posey

GSE Students Teach English in Penn Communities Through PEDAL Program

GSE Students Teach English in Penn Communities Through PEDAL Program

The room is packed. The 24 adults seated in the class, from at least a dozen countries, are each connected to someone at the University of Pennsylvania. They are here to learn to speak English, free of charge.

Louisa Shepard

Brookings and Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania Launch Joint Visiting Fellows Program

Brookings and Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania Launch Joint Visiting Fellows Program

The Brookings Institution and the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House announced today the establishment of a new joint visiting fellowship program bringing senior policy practitioners leaving United States government service into residence as visiting fellows at Brookings and Perry World House.