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VCR alert: The award-winning PBS science series “Nova” starts its 30th season Sept. 30 with a program featuring Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health Chris Rorres of the School of Veterinary Medicine. The subject is Archimedes, not animals, though—Rorres has made the study of the ancient world’s greatest scientist his life’s passion.
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Broadway Star Hershey Felder to Teach Master Class at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Music instruction, voice coaching and acting lessons will be presented as performance art when playwright, composer and Steinway concert artist Hershey Felder visits the University of Pennsylvania to teach a music-performance master class. Currently starring in the hit production "George Gershwin Alone" at the Prince Music Theater, Felder will conduct the class before an audience in the Amado Recital Hall on the Penn campus Sept. 26 from 3 to 5 p.m.
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You gotta believe
Throughout the decades of apartheid, few outside South Africa—and probably not many more inside it—believed that the day would ever come when the black majority and the white minority would live as equals in a democratic society. Alexander Boraine was one of those few. His work to end apartheid led Nelson Mandela to appoint him deputy chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which won acclaim for its efforts to seek justice without vindictiveness for the victims of apartheid.
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Beyond belief
Belief isn’t just about religion. The city fathers of Baltimore are promoting a campaign of civic improvement called “Baltimore Believes.” Othello believes that his wife Desdemona has been unfaithful. Will the Phillies snag a wild card slot? “You’ve got to believe.” This year the Penn Humanities Forum (PHF) has chosen the capacious topic “Belief” as its theme and organized a wide-ranging series of public programs that challenge the traditional idea that belief can only be discussed by theologians or anthropologists.
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Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery to Show Works by Ayón
PHILADELPHIA -- Works by the late Cuban artist Belkis Ayn will be on display at the Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Oct. 10 through Jan. 4. Other of her works will be shown concurrently at Philadelphia's Brandywine Workshop.
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Dental Simulator Lab Lets Penn Students Practice Skills Before They Drill
PHILADELPHIA -- Have you ever wondered how dentists learn to fix cavities? How many teeth did they work on to perfect their skills before tackling your pearly whites? Whose teeth were they, by the way?Studies at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that a new computerized teaching method helps future dentists learn these skills twice as fast as in previous instructional techniques.
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In Welfare-to-Work Programs, Success Has Many Faces
PHILADELPHIA A new study of five types of welfare-to-work programs in Los Angeles County shows that no one kind has a lock on providing the best service. The best way to move welfare recipients into the workforce is an amalgam of different approaches.The study was conducted by the Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania and by the Manhattan Institute.
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Penn Engineering to Honor UNIX Co-Creators Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson with Pender Award
PHILADELPHIA -- Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson, the world-renowned computer scientists who invented the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs in 1969, are the recipients of this year's Harold Pender Award, the highest honor bestowed by the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. A Nov. 12 lecture, reception and awards dinner at Penn will honor their pioneering accomplishments in the development of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language.
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Solar System 'Fossils' Discovered by Hubble Telescope
PHILADELPHIA -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation.
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See the world for a few dollars more
With the return of fall comes a change in the admission charge for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. As of Sept. 2, the Museum’s admission donation is now $8. Children ages 6 to 17, students with ID and seniors over 62 pay $5. And as always, admission is free for children under 6, Museum members, PennCard holders and all visitors on Sundays. Sunday hours have also resumed for the academic year. The Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.