News

• February 25, 2019

  Penn Sophomore Claire Sliney’s Film Wins Oscar

  University of Pennsylvania sophomore Claire Sliney’s film Period. End of Sentence won an Academy Award for best documentary short subject. Period follows a group of girls and women in a rural village outside New Delhi who fight back against India’s deeply rooted stigma surrounding menstruation. Sliney, a Los Angeles native, has been involved in the project since her freshman year in high school at the Oakwood School.

• February 13, 2019

  Pint-size philosophers

  By engaging with Philadelphia elementary students and high school teachers, Penn professor Karen Detlefsen is opening young minds to a new kind of philosophical thinking.

• February 11, 2019

  PennDesign Partners with Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

  The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the School of Design has entered into a five-year collaborative research agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to assist in activities leading to the study and preservation of Taliesin and Taliesin West. The partnership will allow students and faculty to engage in graduate studios, internships, seminars, and theses on topics related to the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

• February 11, 2019

  And the Oscar goes to…a Penn sophomore?

  Claire Sliney is an executive producer of the 26-minute film “Period. End of Sentence.” It’s one of five nominated in the Documentary Short Subject category. Netflix has picked up the film, to be released in mid-February, about the stigma of menstruation for girls in India and the efforts of a nonprofit Sliney co-founded in high school to address the issue and raise awareness.

• February 6, 2019

  PPEH Announces 2019 Artist-in-Residence, Roderick Coover

  PPEH has announced visual artist Roderick Coover as their 2019 PPEH Mellon Artist-in-Residence. Coover’s residency includes collaborative research on the waters of the Delaware Bay and along the shores of the Thames estuary, the North Sea, and English Channel for The Altering Shores, a long-term collaborative transmedia project engaging questions of sea-level rise. Public screenings and showings of his work are planned at Penn and in other locations in Philadelphia, and workshops on environmental storytelling will be offered on sonic and visual research methods.