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April 29, 2020
Announcing the Sachs Program 2020 Grant AwardsThe Sachs Program for Arts Innovation is awarding upwards of $270,000 in funding to 34 successful applicants this year. Grants are being awarded in eight categories, and the recipients represent a diverse cross-section of Penn’s community: students, staff, and faculty from seven of Penn’s twelve schools, as well as many of Penn’s arts and cultural centers.
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April 24, 2020
New Summer Savings Grant Provides Aid to Replace Lost Summer EarningsWhile some employers have committed to offer paid remote work, including Penn’s summer work-study program, many other job opportunities are no longer available. These unprecedented shifts leave many students without essential summer income they would normally contribute toward academic expenses. To mitigate the loss of expected pay, Penn announced this week it will provide all undergraduate students whose financial aid packages include a summer savings expectation with an emergency COVID-19 Summer Savings Grant for the 2020-21 academic year. This increase in financial aid applies to both incoming and returning aided undergraduate students and will replace the entire amount of a student’s summer savings expectation.
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April 21, 2020
How Philly’s Neighborhoods Can Help Us Understand PandemicsIn fact, Philadelphia and other modern cities could not have survived or continued to grow without innovations like sewers and water filtration systems, which allowed urban density to occur safely. Around the same time that city officials were enlarging Fairmount Park, scientists were beginning to understand that illnesses like typhoid and cholera were caused by microorganisms. The field of public health started shifting toward developing immunizations and medical treatments rather than improving urban infrastructure. Yet even now, medicine alone still cannot protect everyone from disease outbreaks, as the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates.
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April 21, 2020
Weitzman School’s Megan Ryerson Invites Students to Remotely Join in Her Family’s ActivitiesProfessor Megan Ryerson in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design connects with her students by inviting them, remotely, to dinners and movies with her family. “I immediately felt this loss of connection: in the classroom, in seminars, in casual lunches. What is a world-class university if it is not people exchanging ideas together in person, proximate to that electricity and synergy?” Ryerson says. “Penn is not just about delivering an education; it is an experience.” Describing herself as “relentlessly positive,” she tried to think of how to connect with her students and have them connect with each other.
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April 16, 2020
Professor Emily Wilson Named 2020 Guggenheim FellowUniversity of Pennsylvania Professor Emily Wilson in the School of Arts and Sciences has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in the humanities category for her translations of ancient Greek and Roman literature and philosophy.