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10/4

Alex M. Azar II

Alex M. Azar II.

The Leonard Davis Institute presents Alex M. Azar II, the 24th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, responsible for overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health. Azar will discuss his tenure at HHS and the important challenges ahead with Penn Professor and LDI Fellow Kevin Volpp, followed by a Q&A session open to the audience.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

10/6

Walk Around Philadelphia

Exterior of Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral.

The SNS Paideia Program invites participants on a walk around the perimeter of the city of Philadelphia with a light breakfast, quick orientation to the walk, and tour of the landscape, history, terrain, and place that is Philadelphia. The walk is designed by Philadelphia-based artist and Penn alumnus JJ Tiziou.

8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, 3717 Chestnut St.

10/6

Mary Sarah Bilder

Mary Sarah Bilder.

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School presents Mary Sarah Bilder, a professor of law at Boston College and author of “Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution,” to deliver the 2022 Arlin M. Adams Lecture.

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

3501 Sansom St.

10/8

Our Voices, Our Time

Two people on chaise lounge in conversation

Penn Live Arts and the Negro Ensemble Company present a series of one-act plays that amplify and celebrate Black stories, voices, and perspectives. The scripts were thoughtfully selected by a committee after a period of submissions.

2:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St.

Andreas Albrecht.

Cosmic Inflation

As part of the Elon Musk Public Lecture, the Center for Particle Cosmology features Andreas Albrecht, a distinguished professor of physics at UC Davis, to talk about his work behind “cosmic inflation theory,” a tool used by cosmologists to understand cosmic origins and to interpret the ever-growing quantities of data depicting the state of the cosmo.

For more information, visit sas.upenn.edu.

Thursday, September 08, 2022

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St.

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