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“Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption”
The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domestic interiors is a subject with which scholars have long grappled, since Quakers have traditionally held both an appreciation for high-quality workmanship and a distrust of ostentation. Early Quakers held “plainness” or “simplicity” as a virtue while still using fine material goods.
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New Study Finds Women in Philadelphia Region Still Face Significant Inequality at Work and at Home
PHILADELPHIA – The women's movement has shattered some glass ceilings, but full-time working women in Philadelphia still earn 25 percent less than men, with the wage disparity for women in "pink collar jobs" even greater.Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Solutions for Progress joined leaders from Women's Way in releasing the Women's Way report, "A Change of Pace: Accelerating Women's Progress."
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Procedure cuts suffering from sinusitis
If you could compare suffering which do you think is worse—chronic lower back pain or chronic sinusitis? Surprisingly, the answer is sinusitis. “When it is severe and chronic,” explained David Kennedy, chairman of the department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, “it can have greater impact on quality of life than such other common conditions that are recognized as debilitating, such as asthma, angina, chronic pulmonary disease and chronic lower back pain.”
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Artists frame solutions to myriad problems
If you’re looking for works by Penn artists only in museums and galleries, then you’re missing out. Beyond display cases and gallery walls, Graduate School of Fine Arts faculty and students are exercising their aesthetic sensibilities in the most unexpected places.
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Student performing arts groups keep campus theaters busy
Is it some kind of harmonic convergence that has made a cappella singing so popular with students at Penn? There’s a barbershop group, Penn Pipers; there’s a gospel group, The Inspiration; there’s even a Hindi group, Penn Masala. There are groups with catchy names like Chord On Blues and Pennsylvania Six-5000 and groups with musical names like Counterparts and Off the Beat. There are boy groups and girl groups and coed groups. There are 11 a cappella groups in all. But this year, there are 12 dance companies, surpassing the number of singing ensembles for the first time.
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Test drive for a College House makeover
The multi-year project to renovate Hamilton, Harrison and Harnwell College Houses is doing more than patching the concrete, replacing the windows and repairing the mechanical systems. The interiors are getting a makeover, too. And a big part of that makeover is new furniture. And when a large institution like Penn goes furniture shopping, it gets to ask for samples to try out.
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Penn Law School Hosts Roe v. Wade 30th Anniversary Symposium
WHO: University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolAmerican Civil Liberties UnionWHAT: Roe v. Wade decision anniversary symposium , "Why Is Abortion Legal? Celebrating 30 Years of Legal Abortion"
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Actor, Professor, Artist to Perform at Arthur Ross Gallery
WHO: Robert Wisdom, actorTukufu Zuberi, director of the Center for Africana Studies at PennTerry Adkins, artist and associate professor of fine arts WHAT: "Postlude," a performance piece that incorporates the elements in the exhibition "Darkwater, Recital in Four Dominions" WHERE: Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St., Philadelphia WHEN: Jan. 23 at 7 p.m.
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Penn's Kelly Writers House Announces Fellows
PHILADELPHIA – One was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, another electrifies the stage with avant-garde performances and the third is a renowned cultural critic and essayist. Walter Bernstein, Laurie Anderson and Susan Sontag have been named the Kelly Writers House Fellows for the spring semester at the University of Pennsylvania. Bernstein will be on the Penn campus Feb. 17-18, followed by Anderson March 24-25 and Sontag April 21-22. The Fellows program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to interact with noted authors in an informal setting.
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Penn Presents 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium
PHILADELPHIA -- Talks by civil rights activists, a candlelight vigil, public service projects and teach-ins will be held Jan. 14-31 at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the 2003 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Symposium on Social Change. "Penn's Commitment to the Legacy: Justice, Peace and Service" is the theme for this year's Symposium. The complete calendar of events is available online at http://www.upenn.edu/aarc/mlk.