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August 10, 2020
Expressions of Color, Comfort, and Creativity in the Fight Against COVID-19the Architecture Department at Penn partnered with Surface magazine to create the Summer School at Penn, a month-long virtual lecture series and design competition. During the four-week program, 76 students from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design listened to public lectures by world-renowned architects, educators, graphic and industrial designers, and doctors and submitted their designs for a mobile-testing unit.
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August 4, 2020
A Book A Day’s Writing Contest Offers Kids’ Views of the PandemicA Book a Day, a West Philadelphia community-based initiative founded and organized by Sibylla Benatova - Senior Conservation Technician for Paper for Penn Libraries - launched a contest this spring, asking children ages 6 to 10 to write a story, memoir or cartoon about what it’s like to live under a pandemic shutdown.
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August 1, 2020
Sophie Hochhäusl, Has Been Named a Princeton Mellon Fellow for the 2020-2021 Academic Year -
July 31, 2020
Sachs-supported Film ‘Our Philadelphia’ Featured in Billy PennBilly Penn writes "a group of West Philly teens who lost friends to shootings, created a must-watch documentary." 'Our Philadelphia' was supported by a grant to producer Nora Gross in 2019. The film broadly examines the way students cope with these losses and how the school context supports, and in some cases constrains, students’ experiences of grieving and healing.
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July 30, 2020
Sachs Grantee Jasmine Blanks Jones Teaches New Public Health Studies Course This FallJasmine Blanks Jones's course will examine the work and research of young artists from Liberia, West Africa who used street theatre to teach best practices for prevention during the Ebola crisis and will consider how their use of dialogical performance contributed to critical knowledge which iteratively informed interventions throughout their awareness campaign.