Apr
17
Happy Hour
Join us this Friday for our last Happy Hour of the semester! Come make bracelets and decorate sunglasses while enjoying a Cava bowl!
Upcoming Events
Apr
17
Lecture and Conversation: Business Ethics and Buddhism
Lecture and conversation with Professor Kin Cheung, Associate Professor of East and South Asian Religions at Moravian University.
Apr
20
Global Sounds Night
Enjoy and evening of live music, cultural food, and community, featuring a variety of musical traditions from across the globe! Hosted by College House Music Fellow Ara Sponsored by Blutt College House Music Program and College Houses & Academic Services
Apr
21
An Evening of Poetry: Echezonachukwu Nduka and Jazz Negotiations
Come and listen to Echezonachukwu Nduka, Harrison's own resident published Poet and Music Scholar, read from his new book: https://www.amazon.ca/Jazz-Negotiations-Echezonachukwu-Nduka/dp/9788570232 In Jazz Negotiations, emotive dialogues with histories, identities, and quotidian realities seek to redefine Africanness. Shaped by music and jazz form, narratives run from one end of the world map to the other, stopping in cities, amplifying voices, reviewing racial tensions, and questioning belief. Through Nduka’s musical verses, we hear the confessions of melodies in hidden and open spaces, the weeping of nature for harm caused by humans, the wounds of yesteryears living in the trauma of now, and the promise of the future. In a wide range of thematically linked poems that move through the landscapes of Nigeria and the United States, we find the borderless natures of grief and joy, sound and silence, and the unending possibilities of languag
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News & Announcements
Stouffer Fellow fights swimming bacteria
Dr. Arnold Mathijssen, a College House Fellow in Stouffer College House, leads a team that has discovered ways that bacteria like E. coli can swim through tiny pathways to invade deeply into the body.
Harrison Fellow brings Italian cinema to the City of Brotherly Love
Harrison College House Fellow Nicola Gentili was interviewed by a local Italian-American cultural newspaper about his work bringing Italian cinema to the people of Philadelphia.
Nursing students and faculty find community in the College Houses
Penn Nursing, the School of Nursing's magazine, profiles the ways in which nurses-in-training at Penn find support and camaraderie within the College Houses.
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About Harrison
Harrison College House is a big house with a big heart. With a large team of Resident and House Assistants, you can count on frequent and varied programming throughout the community. Harrison offers programs that help students explore who they are, meet new friends, and encourage learning for the sake of learning by offering events both in the house, around campus, and throughout Philadelphia.