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Professor of war
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo American universities offer courses in just about everything these days: Ancient languages and nanotechnology, environmentalism and economics, cyberculture and the history of rock ’n roll. But Arthur Waldron says there’s one class that, curiously, most college students won’t find in their course catalog: Warfare 101.
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Olympic Gold Medalist and WNBA Star Sheryl Swoopes to Speak at University of Pennsylvania
WHO: Sheryl Swoopes, Olympic gold medalist and WNBA most valuable playerWHEN: 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2007 WHERE: Harrison Auditorium University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology33rd and Spruce streetsSwoopes is the keynote speaker for QPenn 2007, a series of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender awareness events at the University of Pennsylvania from March 19 to 28. Swoopes is an out lesbian who is a three-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time WNBA most valuable player.
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Penn creates new TV Spots
Penn has developed three new TV spots that highlight the University’s long tradition of ingenuity and entrepreneurship. The 30-second spots focus on three exceptional alumni—John Heisman, Andrea Mitchell and John Legend—who recognize how Penn inspired them to innovate and find success in their chosen fields of football, journalism and music.
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Jam session
Pianist Timothy Wortham Jr., an annual giving officer for the School of Social Policy and Practice, and trumpeter Bart Miltenberger from the Office of Alumni Relations, joined up for an impromptu jam session recently at Fisher-Bennett Hall. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Rae
WHERE: Rae is located in the Cira Centre, next to 30th Street Station, at 2929 Arch Street.
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Silent spring? Bee disease spreads
As beekeeper for Penn’s Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill, Jim Bobb plays a key role in keeping the arboretum’s spectacular gardens blooming strong. Not as key as his bees, though.
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James Baker to Speak at Penn Commencement; Honorees Also Include Aretha Franklin, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
PHILADELPHIA - James A. Baker III, a co-chair of the Iraq Study Group who has served as secretary of state and secretary of the treasury, will deliver the address at the University of Pennsylvania's 251st Commencement on Monday, May 14.As secretary of state under the first President Bush, Baker traveled to more than 90 countries for post-Cold War era diplomatic efforts and formed a coalition of 34 countries opposed to Iraq's intervention in Kuwait.
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Penn's Weiss Tech House Announces Student Inventors Headed to PennVention Competition Finals
PHILADELPHIA -- Ten teams of student inventors have been selected to present their prototypes of innovative technologies at the University of Pennsylvania's third annual PennVention competition on April 6 at Penn's Weiss Tech House. Finalists will compete for more than $60,000 in cash and prizes and a chance to launch their products to market.The finalists, chosen for ingenuity and commercialization potential are:
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The Penn Science Café Presents: \"Mate Copying\"
WHO: Robert Kurzban, assistant professor of psychology in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and SciencesWHAT: The Penn Science Cafe lecture series, free and open to the public, takes science out of the laboratory and treats it to a night on the town. The Penn Science Cafe can be your chance to ask leading experts your questions about science.WHERE: The MarBar, 40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN: Tuesday, March 20, 6 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
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Penn Alexander School Students to Join Role Models in Interactive Videoconference to Celebrate Women's Day
WHAT: In celebration of International Women's Day, the Pennsylvania Commission for Women and MAGPI, the Internet2 provider at the University of Pennsylvania, will co-sponsor an interactive virtual panel discussion and lunch with female role models featured in the commission's book, "Voices,", and school students from grades 6-8 at selected schools across the state. One of the schools is the Penn Alexander School in West Philadelphia, and the others are in the Montgomery County, Harrisburg and Scranton areas.