April

The Lenfest Center received a grant for Digitizing the Atwater Kent Museum Collection -- digitization of approximately 25,000 three-dimensional objects that represent 350 years of history in Philadelphia, including historical artifacts and fine and decorative arts. The images and associated metadata would be available to the public through an online database.

In a Lenfest Center-funded co-op position, Maddie Vassallo has been working on this newsletter celebrating some of the smartest and most innovative women working across local journalism, for The Lenfest Institute for Journalism. Executive Director and CEO Jim Friedlich said: “This series has been terrific. It looks great, reads very well and has informed and inspired while garnering a great deal of attention for the Institute. It’s both fun and noteworthy that it is the work of a Drexel Co-Op (Maddie) and a very newly minted Klein College grad (Kyra), each with superb multimedia content and production skillset well beyond the native acumen of their generation. Congratulations to each of your schools.”