News

• May 11, 2020

  Professor of Music James Primosch Receives 2020 Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music

  The Virgil Thomson Foundation, recognizes an American composer of vocal works. James Primosch is a Penn professor and also active as a pianist. His latest music releases include, "Carthage" a survey of his choral music by two-time Grammy-winners "The Crossing," and "Descent/Return," which features five of his songs.

• May 11, 2020

  Junior Paul Lin Named a 2020 Udall Scholar

  The Udall Foundation, which awards scholarships of as much as $7,000 each to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to Native American nations or to the environment. He is especially interested in the development of geospatial technologies for the study of vegetation and land-cover changes. Lin hopes to pursue a career in the defense sector and to research the implications of climate change on national security.

• May 11, 2020

  Nikil Ragav 2020 President’s Innovation Prize Recipient for InventXYZ

  Nikil Ragav wants to bring high-tech, hands-on learning to all students. InventXYZ, is a program where high school students from all backgrounds across the country take on projects in which they develop 21st-century technology. “Nikil has marshalled the resources to create a ‘wow’ space in which art, electronics, robotics, social studies, coding, and more come together in a dynamic, exciting, and interactive way,” says Dr. Gutmann.

• April 30, 2020

  Improv With an Impact, Using the President’s Engagement Prize

  Seniors Philip Chen and Meera Menon will create a nonprofit to bring improv training to Philadelphia public schools. They teamed up to pursue the challenge of the President’s Engagement Prize and won. The Unscripted Project is designed to run 10-week improv courses for students in grades 6 to 10 in Philadelphia public schools taught by teaching artists from the Philly Improv Theater, which was founded and is headed by a Penn alum.

• April 30, 2020

  Monument Lab Announces its 2020 Cohort of Transnational Fellows

  The Monument Lab 2020 Transnational Fellows are artists, activists, and civic practitioners who critically reimagine monuments in sites and spaces across North America and Germany. Together, they participate in dialogues around questions of how to memorialize the past, offering critical and creative memory interventions in public spaces. While Fellows work in different kinds of media and contexts, their respective projects address long-term inequities in monuments across the globe.