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9/18

September 2024 Wellness Walk

Penn’s LOVE statue on campus.

The Division of Human Resources and Campus Recreation present the September edition of Wellness Walks. Participants are encouraged to bring water and comfortable shoes.

12:00 p.m.

LOVE Sculpture on Locust Walk

9/18

Concrete

Penn Museum exterior

The Wolf Humanities Center presents the Dr. S.T. Lee Distinguished Lecture Series, featuring Anna Tsing, a professor of anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz. Tsing, who studies the ecologies of land-water interface, will discuss concrete as a building material and an adjective.

6:00 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

9/20

Penn Abroad Fair

Left: Penn students on a train in Japan. Right: Penn students under a portico in Japan.

Penn Abroad hosts a fair for students to learn about global opportunities available at Penn. Penn staff, Penn Abroad Ambassadors, and exchange students will be on hand to answer questions.

11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk

9/25

Penn Student Making Workshop

Penn Museum exterior

Penn Museum hosts a making workshop for Penn students to become more familiar with the Museum's collection. Here, students can learn about Navajo weaving with Lucy Fowler Williams, as well as get a look at Navajo textiles in the Museum collection.

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

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

A yellow and green victorian house

Investigating Homelessness

The Department of English and Kelly Writers House present a conversation between author Jennifer Egan and Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy and Practice, who studies homelessness and assisted housing policy. They will discuss how social science research and investigative journalism can combine to consider what storytelling can be done to capture the present situation of homelessness.

For more information, visit writing.upenn.edu.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

12:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

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