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April 8, 2022
The next generation of leaders in urban planningIn 2019, the Stuart Weitzman School of Design welcomed its first cohort of students into the Moelis Scholars Program. The program, designed to support students from diverse backgrounds who are interested in careers in city planning, housing and community, and economic development, provides tuition benefits, research stipends, and mentoring in the two-year Master of City Planning program.
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April 4, 2022
Inspiring the next generation of archive scholarsThrough Inside the Archive, a course taught by Liliane Weissberg of the School of Arts & Sciences, Penn students explore what an archive is, how history gets written, and what is ahead in a digital future.
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March 31, 2022
How Storytelling Can Motivate Us to Help OthersThe mission of the Annenberg School’s Communication Neuroscience Lab has long been to figure out what kind of messages best push us to engage in healthier habits. As COVID-19 began its sweeping disruption of daily life in March 2020 and behaviors like masking, hand washing, and social distancing became life-or-death for many, members of the lab immediately felt called to action. A new study finds that personal stories – instead of cold facts – make people want to help keep others safe.
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March 31, 2022
Understanding migration and the artsIn the latest episode of Penn Today’s ‘Understand This …’ podcast series, Obed Arango of the School of Social Policy & Practice, alongside Wolf Humanities Graduate Fellow Shelley Zhang, discuss migration, the arts, and identity.
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March 30, 2022
From the page to the stageIn collaboration with author Amitav Ghosh, musician Ali Sethi, and Penn’s Brooke O’Harra, 14 students brought to life a parable Ghosh wrote about the world’s largest mangrove forest, human greed, and the environment.