After a national search involving students, faculty, and staff, Krista L. Cortes, GED ’11, ’13, has been named and begun her work as Director of the Center for Hispanic Excellence: La Casa Latina, in the Division of the Vice Provost for University Life.

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett announce the appointment of Dr. Christopher Woods as Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, beginning April 1, 2021.

Provost Wendell Pritchett and Vice Provost for Faculty Laura Perna announce the appointment of José Bauermeister, most recently Presidential Professor of Nursing, as the fifth Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, effective January 1, 2021.

Dean Antonia Villarruel of the School of Nursing was included in a list of outstanding Americans of Latinx descent.

Penn President Amy Gutmann payed tribute to our veterans on Veteran's Day 2020 as part of America 250's monthlong effort to celebrate veterans and active duty service members.

A monumental sculpture by acclaimed artist Simone Leigh has been installed at the corner of 34th and Walnut Streets, the gateway to College Green at Penn.  Titled “Brick House,” the piece depicts a Black woman’s head atop a form that suggests a skirt or perhaps a building. It is the first large-scale piece in the artist’s Anatomy of Architecture series that merges human form with diverse architectural elements. Cast in bronze, the work stands 16 feet high, 9 feet in diameter at its base, and weighs 5,900 pounds. Another edition of “Brick House” is on display on New York City’s High Line through Spring 2021

Roberto Gonzales has been named the University of Pennsylvania’s 25th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1, 2021. The announcement was made today by President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science (Penn Engineering) and Steppingstone Scholars (Steppingstone) have collaborated on a new venture, Inveniam, a first-of-its-kind “STEM Equity and Innovation Lab.”

Penn's Stuart Weitzman School of Design is launching a new initiative to advance the understanding and sustainable conservation of heritage sites relating to African American struggles for equality, from before the passage of the 14th Amendment to the present day.

Roger Arliner Young’s brilliance made her the first black woman in the US to hold a doctorate in zoology. But her academic promise was failed by a system too rooted in prejudice to accept her as an equal.