Penn Humanities Forum Gets Big Donation and New Space on Campus

https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/news/humanities-center-at-penn-gets-new-name-home

"A fresh school year brings about big changes for what was formerly known as the Penn Humanities Forum. Thanks to a generous gift from “Law & Order” and “Chicago” creator Dick Wolf, a Penn alumnus, and his wife Noelle, the forum is now known as the Wolf Humanities Center, and will soon have a new, permanent space, and additional programming.

“We are already a major humanities center, and thanks to the Wolfs’ endowment, we’re only going to get better,” says James English, the Center’s director since 2010 and the John Welsh Centennial Professor of English in the School of Arts & Sciences.

The new space, slated to be completed in October, will be in a renovated wing of Williams Hall near 36th and Spruce streets, home to many Penn humanities departments. The Center will also house the Price Lab for Digital Humanities, of which English is founding director. The two entities will share some administrative services, assuring smooth, collaborative work."

Very exciting! :slight_smile: