University of Pennsylvania
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For next generation dialogue, research, and outreach on China
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
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0 months
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The Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations seeks to incubate and amplify new voices to address challenges in the most critical geopolitical relationship of today’s world. To contribute academically-informed, policy-relevant analysis on pressing issues in U.S.-China relations, fellows are selected in a competitive process within six key issue areas: National Security; Trade & Competitiveness; Science & Technology; Human Rights, Law, & Democracy; Climate & Environment; and Research, Education & Academic Freedom. Over the course of ten months, fellows develop specific, practical policy recommendations on U.S.-China relations through discussions with senior academics and officials in the United States and China, then disseminate their findings to officials and the public. The U.S.-based fellows will also collaborate with similar cohorts in Europe and Asia, serving as the hub for these interconnected activities.
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As a final grant for a project on policy-relevant responses to emerging policy issues
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania will use Carnegie support to stage six expert workshops over two years on pressing security topics such as artificial intelligence, great-power competition, nuclear risk, critical seabed infrastructure, and democratic backsliding. Each workshop will be followed by policy briefs and commissioned essays, and a visiting-fellows track will bring six senior practitioners to campus to shape the discussions and broaden policy reach. PWH will share findings through its website, social media, events at Penn and its Washington Center, and international forums such as the Munich Security Conference, ensuring that rigorous academic insights inform key decision-makers worldwide.
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For a project on policy-relevant responses to emerging global policy issues
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite some notable progress in Corporation-supported efforts to help bridge the gap between academia and the policy world—from the rise of a generation of faculty members committed to engaging critical global policy issues to new media outlets that help academics reach out to broader audiences—further work remains to be done. This involves consolidating the progressto date in the international relations community, devising mechanisms for more productive engagement between scholars and policymakers, and continuing to connect new ideas derived from academic work to the policy world. Building on its previous Corporation-supported work, the University of Pennsylvania’s (Penn) Perry World House (PWH) seeks to continue bringing together scholars, policymakers, and other key constituencies to advance debates, conversations, and policy processes on topics of critical relevance to international peace and security.
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For next generation dialogue, research, and outreach on China
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
In recent years, there have been several dialogues addressing and making policy recommendations about the future of U.S.-China relations. With strong representation by longtime “China hands,” they have had relatively little participation from the newer generation of China scholars and analysts. To better incubate and amplify these voices at this critical juncture in U.S.-China relations, with a view to the longer-term bilateral relationship, the University of Pennsylvania’s (Penn) Center for the Study of Contemporary China will continue and expand its fellowship and research program involving this rising cohort of China specialists. The Penn project will also engage with two other similar emerging experts’ dialogues involving Europeans and Asians, co-directed by the Penn project’s principal investigator, and will serve as the hub for these interrelated activities
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For a project on policy-relevant responses to emerging policy issues
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite some notable progress in Corporation-supported efforts to help bridge the gap between academia and the policy world—from the rise of a generation of faculty members committed to engaging critical global policy issues to new media outlets that help academics reach out to broader audiences—further work remains to be done. This involves consolidating the progressto date in the international relations community, devising mechanisms for more productive engagement between scholars and policymakers, and continuing to connect new ideas derived from academic work to the policy world. Building on its previous Corporation-supported work, the University of Pennsylvania’s (Penn) Perry World House (PWH) seeks to continue bringing together scholars, policymakers, and other key constituencies to advance debates, conversations, and policy processes on topics of critical relevance to international peace and security.
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For the University of Pennsylvania - European University at St. Petersburg M.A. and Certificate in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
0 months
Description
Global tensions and challenges have highlighted the importance of mutual understanding between and among countries. To promote these between the United States and Russia, the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) will create a two-year dual-degree M.A. program as well as a Ph.D. certificate program in collaboration with the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP). The dual degree programs will increase the number of specialists with deep knowledge of Russia and Eurasia in the academic social sciences and humanities as well as in public life. It will also expose the students at EUSP to American thinking and perspectives. The Corporation grant will help launch the program.
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For a project on policy-relevant responses to emerging policy issues
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite some notable progress in advancing efforts to bridge the gap between academia and the policy world—from the rise of a generation of faculty members committed to engaging critical global policy issues to new media outlets that help academics reach out to a broader audience—further work remains to be done. Specifically, this involves consolidating the progress made to date in the international relations community, devising mechanisms for more productive engagement between scholars and policymakers, and continuing to connect new ideas derived from academic work to the policy world. To help meet these challenges, the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House (PWH) was launched three years ago with Corporation support. PWH will continue bringing together scholars, policymakers, and other key constituencies to advance debates, conversations, and policy processes on topics with critical relevance to international peace and security.
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For a project on strategies for policy relevant responses to emerging policy issues
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House—a new global policy research center advancing interdisciplinary research on the world’s most urgent challenges—is designed to provide policymakers, academics, and others with rigorous, policy-relevant insights, packaged in accessible formats. By bringing together relevant academics with leaders from the policy world, nongovernmental community, industry, and the media, the proposed project will help academics increase the policy relevance of their work, frame their research outputs in a way that is accessible or actionable for policymakers, and encourage policymakers to elicit academic knowledge to aid their decision-making processes.
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For support of the Third Pan Africa Think Tank Summit
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Since 2013, the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tank and Civil Society Program (TTCSP) has been organizing a series of regional and global “Think Thank Summits” that bring together leadership from top-ranked think tanks for networking, reflection, and discussions on pressing issues. As TTCSP organizes its third installment of the African Think Tank Summit, the Summit has become one of the foremost forums for African think tanks to share ideas and network with institutions from other countries and regions of the continent. The third African Think Tank Summit builds upon the first two summits, both funded by the Corporation, to focus on continued improvement of think tanks’ monitoring and evaluation, as well as discuss the topic of Agendas 2030 and 2063 (Agenda 2030 is the UN Sustainable Development Agenda and includes the SDGs; Agenda 2063 is an African Union action plan for African development ). This project relates to IPS’ focus on peacebuilding in Africa, specifically eliciting and applying local knowledge.
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For a series of regional and global think tank summits
Date
Jun. 04, 2015
Duration
7 months
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For support of the Africa Think Tank Summit
Date
Dec. 05, 2013
Duration
7 months
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For a project on the relationship between information and communication technologies, and peacebuilding and statebuilding in Africa
Date
Sep. 13, 2012
Duration
28 months
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For monitoring the accuracy of independent 2010 political advertisements
Date
Jun. 03, 2010
Duration
6 months
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Sep. 10, 2009
Duration
64 months
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Toward a conference on politics, activism, and the history of America's public schools
Date
Sep. 27, 2007
Duration
18 months
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Toward a national initiative for assessment reform
Date
Mar. 02, 2006
Duration
32 months
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Toward the Fels Institute of Government's MyVote1 voter assistance, question, and complaint hotline
Date
Jun. 08, 2006
Duration
12 months
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For use by the Fels Institute of Government, final grant for a model technical assistance program for state and local election administrators
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
14 months
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Toward a summit on global issues in women's health
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
12 months
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Toward activities by the National Consortium on Youth Civic Engagement aimed at promoting civic participation
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
132 months
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Toward a national initiative for assessment reform
Date
Jun. 09, 2004
Duration
18 months
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Toward research and analysis on Election Day voting problems
Date
Sep. 30, 2004
Duration
20 months
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For efforts to use the Student Voices program as a model for civic education curriculum and standards in Pennsylvania
Date
Oct. 09, 2003
Duration
35 months
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As a final grant toward research by the Annenberg School for Communication and the Annenberg Public Policy Center on legislative issue advocacy advertising
Date
Oct. 09, 2003
Duration
24 months