College and Wharton senior Florence Onyiuke was named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar. The Rhodes Trust announced this year’s group of scholars on Nov. 15, with Onyiuke listed as one of 32 chosen from the United States. The Rhodes Scholarship, established in 1902, funds full-time graduate study at the University of Oxford for around 100 recipients…
Current University of Pennsylvania affiliates are invited to apply for funding to support travel to the American University in Cairo and the Middle East to participate in research and fieldwork, course development and site visits, meetings with international peers and partners, and/or conference or networking opportunities. Application policies and procedures are in development, but Penn…
This fall, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is co-chairing the Penn Forward “Global Opportunity & New Markets” working group alongside Megan Ryerson, Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design and UPS Foundation Professor. Together, they are exploring how Penn can deepen its global…
Penn’s Middle East Center hosted a talk led by Middle East distinguished visiting scholar Dahlia Scheindlin on the role of data in understanding Israeli and Palestinian attitudes surrounding the Israel-Hamas war. The Oct. 28 event — held at the Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics — focused on the Palestinian and Israeli public opinions.…
At 12:00 p.m. local time—or 5:00 a.m. ET—a U.S.-drafted ceasefire agreement went into effect between Israel and Hamas. The agreement is intended to stop the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza and give Israel and Hamas the space to try to arrive at a peace agreement that would permanently end the more than two-years-long war. It would…
On October 6-7, Perry World House hosted its annual security conference. This year’s topic, The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and International Politics, brought together world-leading experts and thinkers to discuss the impact of AI on US-China competition, the use of AI in the military domain, how advances in frontier AI towards artificial general intelligence…
On October 16-17, Perry World House hosted its annual climate conference, this year titled, “Climate Cooperation in Transition.” This workshop, organized in cooperation with the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research’s Global Governance Innovation project, advanced understanding of the rapidly evolving global policy landscape and the future of climate policy within it. The outcomes will be…
Perry World House (PWH) at the University of Pennsylvania and Foreign Affairs magazine are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2025 Emerging Scholars Policy Prize is Alicia Chen of Stanford University. Dr. Chen’s article, “How China Uses Aid to Shape the Global Order,” will be published in Foreign Affairs in the coming months.
Perry World House (PWH), the University of Pennsylvania’s home for global policy engagement, and UNFCCC’s Resilience Frontiers (RF) initiative are pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural “Global Lens: Visions of Resilience” film festival is Diego Sarmiento of Peru. Mr. Sarmiento’s film, An Amazon’s Night Dream.
On the morning of Friday, Oct. 10, a U.S.-drafted ceasefire agreement went into effect between Israel and Hamas, a step towards a peace agreement that would permanently end the more than two-years-long war. The agreement will see the Israeli military begin to withdraw from Gaza and release all Palestinian prisoners, with Hamas releasing their remaining…