For the third year in a row, Perry World House hosted a series of policy discussions on the margins of the UN General Assembly High Level Session and New York Climate Week that addressed the future of healthcare in Africa and humanitarian priorities for the next UN Secretary-General.
On the sidelines of the Munich Leaders Meeting in New Delhi, India, on October 4 and 5, 2026, PWH Faculty Director and Richard Perry Professor Michael C. Horowitz sat down to talk security, technology, and geopolitics with India Today Global’s Gaurav Sawant.
Perry World House (PWH) at the University of Pennsylvania and Foreign Affairs magazine are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2026 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize is Joshua A. Schwartz of Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Schwartz’s article, “Fighting for Credibility Can Destroy It,” will be published by Foreign Affairs in the coming months. “Dr. Schwartz’s article was impressive in both…
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is pleased to announce that PWH Faculty Fellow Fiona S. Cunningham has been selected to receive the 2025 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security (Princeton University Press, 2025).
Perry World House announced the inaugural cohort of researchers participating in its Faculty Fellowship Projects Initiative last week. The program offers the center’s resources to Penn faculty members who are currently engaged in research projects with a potential global policy impact. Resources will be devoted to faculty leads of the six selected projects for…
Perry World House highlighted Penn founder Benjamin Franklin’s key role in the drafting of the Constitution at a Tuesday panel. Vice Provost of Global Initiatives Ezekiel Emanuel moderated the Sept. 15 event, which featured Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Stacy Schiff and Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar. The panel — hosted on National Voter Registration…
A federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration rule that would have imposed a four-year cap on international student visas on Monday, just one day before it was set to take effect. If implemented, the Department of Homeland Security policy would apply to students, researchers, professors, foreign press representatives, or other academics entering or reentering the United…
According to the ISSS email, applications are being paused “while the University conducts a thorough review of its academic programs and CPT processes.” ISSS defines CPT as a pathway for international students to earn “work experience in the U.S. in the student’s field of study through internships, cooperative education, or other work-study programs.” The Student and Exchange…
A coalition of higher education associations has sued the federal government over a new rule limiting how long international students can remain in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security rule — scheduled to take effect on Sept. 15 — replaces the longstanding “Duration of Status” framework with fixed admission periods for F-1 students,…
Penn Abroad announced the return of an opportunity for students to study at the British American Drama Academy in the United Kingdom earlier this summer. The London Theatre Program offers an acting and directing track to junior and senior College students majoring in theatre arts. The application process includes an audition, and prior acting experience is required.…