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Eye-Catching Design—With an Impact
The spiked, sky-blue structure in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in New York is more than just a striking design. It’s also an award-winning installation, as well as an environmentally friendly structure designed to combat air pollutants.
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Celebrating Penn Museum with an Object a Day
Over the 125 years of its existence, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has amassed a prized collection of artifacts, numbering close to 1 million.
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Commencement 2012
Gray skies and a light sprinkle couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm as 5,858 graduates made their way to Franklin Field for Penn’s 256th Commencement on May 14. University Chaplain Charles L. Howard urged the Class of 2012 to offer thanks to their parents and other loved ones and to the faculty, staff and administration that helped them achieve their goals.
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A Day in the Life of Penn
Crew teams at dawn. A midday rush to food trucks along Spruce Street. An evening performance in an on-campus theater. These are just a handful of the moments, big and small, captured in the first-ever University-wide photo project, “A Day in the Life of Penn.”
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Penn Museum Helps Put An Irish Murder Mystery To Rest
Fifty-seven Irish workers set sail for the United States in April of 1832 to work at Duffy’s Cut, a Pennsylvania Railroad construction site in Malvern, a city about 20 miles outside of Philadelphia. The workers arrived in Philadelphia in June.