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a href= https://www.library.upenn.edu target= _blank The University of Pennsylvania Libraries /a has received a rare collection of 151 interpositi

A fieldwork experience, no travel required During a two-week in-person bootcamp at the Penn Museum, 11 undergrads learned basic archaeological skills in subjects from ceramics and sample-taking to archaeobotany. During the archaeobotany lesson led by Chantel White (not pictured) of the Penn Museum’s Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials—part of a two-week archaeology bootcamp—students including (from left to ri...

Game-changing gift announced at inaugural Penn Africa Research Symposium The $5 million gift creates the Holman Africa Initiative, expanding financial aid and enhancing opportunities for faculty and students to engage in research and teaching in and on Africa. Ocek Eke, director of Global and Local Service-Learning Programs at Penn Engineering, speaks at the start of the Penn Africa Research Symposium. A $5 million gift from Wendy and Wayne Holman w...

The “Mirrors Collection,” curated by Penn students, is a list of illustrated children’s books chosen and reviewed especially for Philadelphia School District libraries and their diverse student populations.

University of Pennsylvania Libraries receives major gift of works by renowned photographer Arthur Tress Arthur Tress, "Secret Conversation, New York" (1980), Facing Up series. Arthur Tress Photography Collection, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. PHILADELPHIA, PA .-The University of Pennsylvania Libraries announced the gift of works by the renowned American contemporary photographer Arthur Tress (b. 1940, Brooklyn). Generously given by an anonymous donor, this outstanding collection – part...

Share The University of Pennsylvania Libraries today announced the gift of works by the renowned American contemporary photographer Arthur Tress. Given by an anonymous donor, this outstanding collection – part of which has already been appraised at $4.2 million—joins another recent gift of Tress photography given to the Penn Libraries by J. Patrick Kennedy and Patricia Kennedy, parents of a 1997 Penn graduate, for a combined 2,500 photographic prints. Together these collections document Tre...

The disruption has prompted financial concerns for students who may now require additional semesters of funding.

Challenging and transforming everyday experiences on Penn’s campus The Penn and Slavery Project will host a launch event Friday for its new augmented reality app, which unveils the University’s historical ties to slavery. One stop in the Penn and Slavery Project app allows users to explore a 360-degree AR exhibit, which discusses the work of Samuel Morton and the lingering legacies of scientific racism. The newly released Penn...

Link Copied William Henry Dorsey was an information hoarder. An African American of means who lived in 19th-century Philadelphia, Dorsey suffered from a “malady” that afflicted others of his era: archive fever. He spent much of his long life—he was born in 1837 and died in 1923—clipping newspaper articles and pasting them into one or another of nearly 400 scrapbooks, organized by topic.    Dorsey’s scrapbooks represent a bricolage of one man’s far-ranging interest in African Amer...

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