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February 27, 2019
Pinning Positivity: Student Creates ‘Affirmation Tree’ to Promote Self-loveCollege senior Elana Burack created the project, a wire tree with self-affirming messages hanging on leaf-shaped notecards, to encourage positive-self reflection among students.
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February 27, 2019
Egypt on DisplayDuring its Building Transformation Project, the Penn Museum is opening a new Ancient Egypt exhibition to display artifacts and highlight their conservation.
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February 27, 2019
PennDesign Renamed After Fashion Icon Stuart WeitzmanPennDesign has been renamed the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in honor of the fashion icon and Wharton alumnus' lifetime commitment and support to Penn.
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February 25, 2019
Penn Sophomore Claire Sliney’s Film Wins OscarUniversity 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.
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February 13, 2019
Pint-size philosophersBy engaging with Philadelphia elementary students and high school teachers, Penn professor Karen Detlefsen is opening young minds to a new kind of philosophical thinking.