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Perry World House Announces Additional Distinguished Visiting Fellows for 2024-25 Academic Year

Perry World House (PWH), the University of Pennsylvania’s home for global policy engagement, is delighted to announce the addition of three distinguished visiting fellows for the 2024 – 2025 and…

Bringing together passions for nursing, community, and policy

Growing up in rural Alaska shaped Charlotte Brown’s interest in health care access, while being a Perry World House Student Fellow and Benjamin Franklin Scholar expanded her horizons. Charlotte Brown…

Recording oral histories in rural Uganda

In a village in Uganda, Penn students set up their cameras under trees, shaded from the sun and the heat, ready for the interviews they had prepared for throughout the…

Penn Global Accepting Applications for Penn Wharton China Center Grants

Penn Global is pleased to share that it is formally accepting applications for Penn Wharton China Center grants, which offer China-focused research and teaching support. In January, Penn Global announced…

Announcing the 2025-2026 Penn Global Seminars

Penn Global Seminars (PGS) are semester-long courses taught on campus that include an embedded travel component. Through PGS, Penn undergraduate students are able to take full advantage of essential global…

The new European Studies minor can be partly earned while students study abroad in Europe. (Image: iStock/olrat)

European Studies Institute aims to center the continent for interested undergrads

Launch of the Institute and rebirth of a minor in European studies create new opportunities for student research and travel abroad. A new European Studies Institute (ESI) has launched at Penn along…

In Senegal, the ambitious Dakar Greenbelt project seeks to create an extensive network of ecological infrastructure in and around the city to sustainably address environmental concerns and enhance urban life. With support from David Gouverneur and Ellen Neises, Ph.D. candidate Rob Levinthal in the Weitzman School of Design led two courses that included a field trip to Dakar, that culminated in students presenting their visions for parts of the Greenbelt. (Image: Courtesy of Chaowu Li)

From a desert to an oasis: Penn engages in ambitious greening effort in the Sahel

Students from the Weitzman School of Design journeyed to Senegal to help with an ambitious ecological and infrastructural greening effort as part of their coursework. The Dakar Greenbelt aims to…

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Penn Global Launches Climate Security and Geopolitics Project, Scott Moore Named Senior Advisor for Climate Security

In anticipation of Climate Week at Penn, Penn Global is pleased to announce the launch of the Climate Security and Geopolitics Project. Led by Scott Moore, Director of China Programs and…