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October 2, 2019
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley Named Sachs Visiting ProfessorsThe University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design has appointed artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley the Keith L. and Kathy Sachs Visiting Professors in the Department of Fine Arts for the 2019–2020 Academic Year.
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October 1, 2019
In Memory of Lives Lost Crossing the BorderThe expanse of desert lands spanning the doorstep of Mexico to Arizona is filled with stories of migrants who’ve trudged through the terrain and struggled through long nights and hot days to cross the border. Many of them—at least 3,200 since 2000—never finished this journey. “Hostile Terrain 94,” a pop-up exhibit coming to the Penn Museum, reminds us of those people.
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October 1, 2019
Studying Ancient Architectural Artifacts in GreeceJunior Zahra Elhanbaly worked with art history’s Mantha Zarmakoupi on a research project on the island of Paros. An architecture major who also has a talent for drawing, Penn junior Zahra Elhanbaly is helping her history of art professor pursue the mystery of surprisingly large architectural artifacts found at the bottom of the Aegean Sea.
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October 1, 2019
Classical Studies Professor Emily Wilson Receives MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’Emily Wilson, classical studies professor in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Wilson has received attention worldwide as the first woman to publish an English translation of Homer’s epic poem the “Odyssey.” She is currently working on a translation of the other Homeric poem, the “Iliad.”
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September 20, 2019
Nora Gross Examines How Gun Violence Affects Students InvolvedNora Gross, joint doctoral candidate in sociology and eduction, writes her Ph.D. dissertation on how school's surviving students dealt with the deaths of their peers from gun violence.