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Silk Road
The Penn Museum exhibition “Secrets of the Silk Road” tells the story of a set of ancient trade routes that connected China, India, Central Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa and Europe. The path for anyone traveling along the Silk Road was through the Tarim Basin. Although the trade route was named after the silk exported from China, many other luxury goods, such as precious stones and metals, ivory, glass, perfume, spices and paper, were also commonly transported on its various paths.
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Q&A with Victor Mair
In 1988, Victor Mair was leading a Smithsonian tour group through the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Museum in China when he saw something that stopped him dead in his tracks. Behind a pair of heavy black curtains lay a room full of amazingly well-preserved mummies in glass cases. So well-preserved, in fact, that Mair, a professor of Chinese language and literature in the School of Arts and Sciences, thought the mummies and their belongings belonged in a Madame Tussauds Wax Museum.
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Penn Museum’s ‘Secrets of the Silk Road’ exhibition to be modified
The Penn Museum regrets to announce that its specially ticketed “Secrets of the Silk Road” exhibition, originally scheduled for Feb. 5 to June 5, 2011, has been modified, and will open without artifacts and mummies from China, at the request of Chinese officials. The rich, multimedia “Silk Road” gallery experience—featuring text, images, sound, maps, a recreated excavation site and interactive stations—will now be free with regular Museum admission.
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Penn GSE Researcher Awarded $1.5 Million to Study “Models of Success” at Minority-Serving Institutions
PHILADELPHIA — Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the Lumina Foundation for Education, USA Funds and the Kresge Foundation. Consisting of $500,000 from each of the funding agencies, the grant will be used to study “models of success” that help students finish their degrees at minority-serving institutions, including historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and Native American tribal colleges.
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Black men and college life
There are currently hundreds of thousands of black men taking classes at colleges and universities across the country. These aspiring intellectuals come from big cities, small towns, urban areas and those more rural, and from nearly every socio-economic status imaginable. Each brings his own unique story.
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Staff Q&A with David Eisenhower
Camp David, formally known as the Naval Support Facility, Thurmont, is the country retreat for the President of the United States, located in Frederick County, Md.
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Penn Bookstore series celebrates Black History Month
Black History Month is a time to celebrate the proud history of African Americans and the countless contributions they have made to American society, not only in sports and entertainment, but also science, engineering, business, education, literature, law, anthropology, medicine, civil rights, politics, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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Assessing the good and the bad in new federal financial reform
In the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, America’s confidence in the U.S. government’s ability to regulate big banks and insurance conglomerates has been severely shaken.
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Penn accepts 2011 RecycleMania challenge
RecycleMania, the annual waste reduction and recycling competition, kicks off on Sunday, Feb. 6, at 600 colleges and universities across the country. This eight-week contest pits schools against each other in a friendly rivalry to determine which institution can out-recycle the others and minimize waste.
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Research Suggests Friendships Are Built on Alliances
PHILADELPHIA -- New research from the University of Pennsylvania is challenging some longtime assumptions about why human beings seek and keep their friends, and it reveals a somewhat darker side to the very nature of friendship itself.