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June 5, 2020
Sixteen Penn Students and Recent Graduates Awarded 2020-21 Fulbright ScholarshipsPenn has 16 Fulbright Scholars for 2020-21. Abby Cacho, Faith Cho, Serena Hajjar, Henry Hoffman. Natalia Lindsey, James Nassur, Ton Nguyen, Christine Olagun-Samuel. Mark Perfect, Stephanie Petrella, Aiden Reiter, Arryonna Santos. Adam Sax, Raka Sen, Adithya Sriram, Sam Tullman.
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June 5, 2020
Art For Philadelphia Community Bail FundPhiladelphia-based artists raising money in support of the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund. All profit goes directly to the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund. Edition of 20. Participating Artists: Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Alex Da Corte, David Hartt, Sharon Hayes, Marcus Maddox, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Becky Suss.
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May 18, 2020
Sarah J. Jackson and Duncan Watts Awarded 2020 Andrew Carnegie FellowshipsNow in its sixth year, the goal of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is to support high-caliber scholarly research in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. The selected projects focus on a broad range of complex political, economic, technological, humanistic, and sociological matters.
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May 18, 2020
The Unique Subculture of Cuban PunkTorre Pérez, a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Romance Languages in the School of Arts & Sciences, explores social history of Cuban punk. She built a website as part of her dissertation process, this is the first digital archive dedicated to Cuban punk, Torre Pérez says. The website includes filmed videos and interviews, as well as a band directory and map. Each band is pinpointed on the map, with a color-coding system to note its status.
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May 18, 2020
Personal Documentaries Replace Performing at Edinburgh Festival FringeThe Edinburgh Project course at Penn, offered only every two years for about a half-dozen students chosen by the Theatre Arts faculty. They produce a one-act play, working in conjunction with a professional director and travel to Scotland to perform in the famous Festival Fringe in August. This year the focus shifted from what would have been the start of rigorous rehearsals together. Ferguson instead asked the students to find material from the novel and play and use it to create short videos each week that reflected their own transformations in this time of crisis, from their perspectives during the global coronavirus pandemic.