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July 12, 2018
Kathleen Brown Discusses the Penn Slavery Project on Radio TimesWith guests Kathleen Brown, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, and Kenyatta Johnson, Radio Times looks into the history of slavery at Penn and in Philadelphia and discuss how to best address that history today.
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July 12, 2018
Hack4Impact is Developing Web-based Applications to Help NonprofitsA creative and dedicated cadre of 30 Penn students spends 5 to 15 unpaid hours weekly developing web-based applications that help nonprofits access, share and analyze complicated, changing data sets. Choosing from dozens of nonprofit applications, they select five coding projects each semester, prioritizing opportunities to create broadly useful, replicable programs for nonprofits whose missions they are passionate about advancing.
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July 12, 2018
Erin Connelly, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Penn Libraries Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, is Analyzing Stains in Medieval and Early Modern BooksConnelly, a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Libraries Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, is part of a national team of researchers who for the past year analyzed stains they found on parchment, paper, and bindings in medieval and early modern books. They gathered scientific data on 40 medieval manuscripts from five institutions, using the innovative approach of high-tech scanning.
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July 12, 2018
Monument Lab Receives Knight Foundation Prototype Fund Grant for Civic PortalCivic Portal, spearheaded by Ken Lum and Paul Farber, will encourage public input on new forms of historical monuments through a digital tool that allows users to identify locations, topics and create designs for potential public art and monuments in our cities.
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June 29, 2018
Moelis Family Grand Reading Room in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center Recognized in the 2018 CODAawards Top 100 Design ProjectsThe Moelis Family Grand Reading Room in the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center was recognized in the 2018 CODAawards Top 100 most successful design projects that integrate commissioned art into an interior, architectural, or public space.