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Locust Moon Comics and Movies
WHAT: About a century ago, a group of writers, editors and literary critics decided to start meeting for lunch at what was to become the famous Algonquin Round Table in New York. Now-famous literary names such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Alexander Woollcott shared their mutual creativity at the meetings and turned their ideas into great works.
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Penn Research Advances Understanding of Lead Selenide Nanowires
PHILADELPHIA — The advancements of our electronic age rests on our ability to control how electric charge moves, from point A to point B, through circuitry. Doing so requires particular precision, for applications ranging from computers, image sensors and solar cells, and that task falls to semiconductors. Now, a research team at the University of Pennsylvania’s schools of Engineering and Applied Science and Arts and Sciences has shown how to control the characteristics of semiconductor nanowires made of a promising material: lead selenide.
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Penn helps stage Philadelphia Science Festival
This month scientists and science fans alike will take the latest research in fields from astronomy to zoology out of the labs and into the streets to celebrate the first annual Philadelphia Science Festival.
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Game on
The 2011-12 school year at Penn will be all about gaming.
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Sugar and spice? Photos examine girl culture
In one of Lauren Greenfield’s photographs, a young woman, Lillian, sits on a purple cushioned bench in a New York store with a bright pink high-heeled shoe in one hand, mouth ajar. In another, Sheena tries on clothes with her friend Amber, age 14, in a dressing room in San Jose. It’s a girl thing.
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Staff Q&A with Glenn Bryan
“Penn’s strength is connected to the greatness of the community it shares,” says Glenn Bryan, the assistant vice president of community relations in the Office of Government and Community Affairs. “We’re here and we’re not going anywhere and the community is not going anywhere, so it’s important that we find mutual ways of working together to benefit both the University and the community.”
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50th annual Antiques Show benefits ovarian cancer research
Looking for that perfect antique piece for your home? You may be able to find it—and simultaneously help Penn Medicine fight ovarian cancer—at the Philadelphia Antiques Show.One of the longest-running antiques shows in the country, the event runs from Saturday, April 9, through Tuesday, April 12, at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia Cruise Terminal at Pier One, 5100 S. Broad St. The extravaganza features diverse period furnishings, folk and fine art pieces, ceramics, porcelain, jewelry and textiles.
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Penn visiting researcher offers insight into Royal Wedding
When all eyes turn to the United Kingdom on Friday, April 29, for the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey, those of us here at Penn can watch the ceremony with an informed commentary by one of our own scholars.
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Gold Medals
Two recent renovations on Penn’s campus have set a gold standard. The refurbished and expanded Music Building, located at 201 S. 34th St., part of Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences, and Joe’s Café, a new eatery in the Wharton School’s Steinberg-Dietrich Hall, at 3620 Locust Walk, were certified LEED Gold in March by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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What is that red brick wall in front of Franklin?
Dear Benny:About a year ago, a trailer was placed in front of the Franklin Building, near the southeast corner of 36th and Sansom streets, and next to the trailer a structure is being built. Right now it looks like a large wall. What is this going to be? Is it temporary or permanent? — Built to Code