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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 right) Ashley Ray, Emily Gladden, and Sarah LaPorte, learned a technique called dry sieving used to se...
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 will create a new initiative at Penn aimed at dramatically expanding financial aid and enhancing oppo...
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 of which has already been appraised at $4.2M joins another recent gift of Tress photography give...