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Through

2/14

Energy Week 2025

Penn Schools, centers, institutes, student groups, and more host events for Energy Week 2025, ranging from Lightning Talks hosted by the Kleinman Center to a talk about climate change and artificial intelligence, hosted by the Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative.

All Day

Various locations

2/12

Penn and Pencil Reading

Exterior of the Kelly Writers House with a path to the front door.

Penn staff who are members of the Penn and Pencil creative writing club share poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

6:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

2/18

Managing Presentation Anxiety

Penn Grad Center brick exterior with foliage

Communication Within the Curriculum Associate Director Sue Weber offers tips and tricks to control anxiety during public speaking. A Penn graduate student ID is required.

12:00 p.m.

Penn Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk

3/4

Songs of Love and Loss

Penn Museum exterior

In collaboration with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Penn Museum presents flutist Emi Ferguson and harpist Ashley Jackson for a conversation and musical demonstration, moderated by Assyriologist Paul Delnero. The conversation will explore the role of the flute and harp in Sumerian culture.

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

A model Ancient Egyptian rowboat

Ancient Egypt: Discovery to Display

Two-hundred objects, some of which have never been shown before, will be part of the Museum’s “From Discovery to Display” exhibit, exploring Ancient Egypt through the lens of an archaeologist and explaining how the objects were found and cared for. The exhibit is a three-gallery display in anticipation of the eventual re-opening of the Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries, as part of the Museum's Building Transformation project.

For more information, visit penn.museum.

Saturday, February 23, 2019

5:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

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