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April 6, 2021
Reassessing Iconography on Penn CampusFormed this past summer by President Amy Gutmann, Provost Wendell Pritchett, and Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli, was the Campus Iconography Group (CIG). In charge with the removal or renaming of certain historic iconography, displaying art on campus, as well as the decisions to name places, programs, and endowed funds.
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April 1, 2021
Damon Reaves is Joining Washington’s National Gallery of Art as Head of EducationThe National Gallery of Art (NGA) has appointed Mr. Damon C. Reaves, GFA’08 (2014976; Region: Philadelphia) to Head of Education. An experienced educator in museum and classroom settings, He joins the National Gallery of Art from the Philadelphia Museum of Art where he has been on staff since 2011, most recently serving as Interim Senior Curator of Education and Public Programs. At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mr. Reaves was initially a Studio Monitor, then rose to Coordinator of Community Programs taking on increasing responsibility. He briefly served as Director of Community Engagement at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston before rejoining the Philadelphia museum as Associate Curator of Education for Community Engagement and Access. Prior to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he worked for over four years with Mural Arts Philadelphia, where he was a Teaching Artist.
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March 29, 2021
John Legend receives Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship 2021 Alumni Achievement AwardThe Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship 2021 Alumni Achievement Award event featured a live virtual fireside chat with recipient John Legend. The event focused on entrepreneurship as a platform for innovation and change, and included an update on entrepreneurship at Penn from Wharton Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Karl Ulrich.
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March 29, 2021
Philadelphia Orchestra and CovidPhysicians, engineers, and scientists from Penn are working with The Philadelphia Orchestra to study the aerosol droplets that wind and brass musicians produce when playing. Their findings, aimed at reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission, could help the Orchestra once again play together in person.
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March 29, 2021
History is The ‘Narratives We Tell’To understand how ideas about racial difference took root in American history, Makiki Reuvers, a Ph.D. candidate in history, examines 17th-century encounters between British colonists and Native Americans. As a Ph.D. candidate in history and, this semester, a teaching assistant for Afro-American History, 1876–Present, Reuvers is interrogating how these narratives get written and by whom. “I always like to talk to my students about how history is written by individuals, by people with their own agendas and perspectives,” she says.