by emmade | Apr 21, 2022 | Alumni Views
By Seema Thomas The views expressed are those of the author and do not represent or should not be attributed to any organization. I arrived at Penn to study engineering, but over time I unintentionally evolved into an urban explorer looking at every dimension of...
by agaray | Oct 28, 2021 | Alumni Views
By Jon Freedman Senior Vice President-Global Government Affairs at SUEZ WTS & SUEZ North America Wharton ’91 Much of the U.S. is experiencing hotter and drier weather as a result of climate change, leading to heightened water scarcity issues. This has placed...
by agaray | May 10, 2021 | Alumni Views
By Chantal Victoria Bright Penn Alum, 2012 I’m a Philadelphia native, born to immigrant parents from Liberia—a small country on the coast of West Africa with historical ties to the United States. Freed slaves and born-free Blacks from America settled and formed the...
by krpleas | Feb 15, 2021 | Alumni Views
By: Albert J. Slap, ’71 On April 22, 1970, as a junior at Penn, I attended the first Earth Day celebration in Philadelphia. On a cool and breezy spring day, tens of thousands of young people gathered in Fairmont Park to listen to Senator Ed Muskie, the poet Allen...
by agaray | Oct 21, 2020 | Alumni Views
By Tiffany Ledesma, Elizabeth Svekla, and Maura Jarvis Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) October 22, 2020 What have we learned about green investments, planning, partnerships and public engagement? Almost a decade ago, the City of Philadelphia embarked on a...
by agaray | Jul 15, 2020 | Alumni Views
By Jack M. Gorman MD, David A. Scales MD PhD, Cody M. Leff, and Sara E. Gorman PhD MPHJuly 16, 2020Misinformation about science and health is rampant on the internet and throughout social media, as attested to by the current WHO-declared coronavirus “infodemic.”...
