
For two weeks each spring, Doug Martenson a lecturer in drawing in PennDesign’s Fine Arts Department, cleans and maintains the 19 bronze sculptures that dot Penn’s campus, including the iconic Ben Franklin sculpture on College Green and “Young Franklin” outside Weightman Hall.
more »Julie Miller Vick, senior associate director in Career Services, discusses linking Ph.D. and postdoctoral students with opportunities beyond Penn, the changes she’s seen during her nearly four decades at the University, and going out while the lights are on.
more »France has long been hailed as one of the world’s leading fine wine producers, but Patrick McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the Penn Museum, has found evidence that wine was brought to the region by the Etruscans of ancient Italy.
more »From the rugged coastline of northern California and the steel blue glacier lakes of Canada, to the wilderness of Yellowstone and cityscapes in the United States and Europe, landscape photographer Jack Booth concentrates on finding the extraordinary in the everyday. An exhibit of his work runs through June 29 at the Burrison Gallery in the University Club at Penn.
more »At the end of the school year in June, Philadelphia will have nearly three dozen vacant school buildings. PennPraxis has developed a model for how the city can reuse vacant school buildings for purposes such as housing for senior citizens or recreational space.
more »An interdisciplinary Penn research team is using the Japanese art of origami, and a variant called kirigami, for projects that could lead to a drug-delivery device, an emergency shelter, or even a space station.
more »Lt. Col. Mortimer O’Connor, who gave his life for his country during the Vietnam War, was awarded a posthumous Ph.D. during Penn's 257th Commencement on Monday, May 13. O’Connor was close to finishing his English dissertation before he was killed in action in 1968.
more »The 40th Street Summer Series kicks off on Saturday, May 25, with a concert by 11-piece brass band Brooklyn Qawwali Party. The free series will feature live musical entertainment on the last Saturday of each month, May through September.
more »The new Lenape Garden behind the Albert M. Greenfield Intercultural Center is in the shape of a turtle, a significant symbol for the Lenape people. The turtle is a part of the creation story for local Lenape communities.
more »Eugene Y. Park, the Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History in the School of Arts & Sciences and director of the James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies, discusses Korea, past and present, unification and Cold War creations, and rumors of nuclear war.
more »Rising senior Christi Economy, an international relations and economics major, chats about her recently awarded Truman Scholarship, international development, Economy/economics jokes, and her summer internship at the U.S. embassy in Bolivia.
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