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The Penn Science Cafe Presents: Maybe You CAN Hurry Love

The Penn Science Cafe Presents:Maybe You Can Hurry Love: The Science of Mating and DatingWHAT:  The Penn Science Cafe can be your chance to ask your questions directly to leading experts. WHO: Robert Kurzban, assistant professor of psychology, Penn's School of Arts and SciencesWHERE:  The MarBar   40th and Walnut streets, PhiladelphiaWHEN:   6 p.m., Monday, July 25      Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Penn Team Leaves to Train Teachers in Tsunami-Ravaged Indonesia

WHO:Five members of a team led by Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Kathy SchultzWHAT:Dr. Schultz and her team will be leaving for the airport and taking more than 30 boxes of donated school supplies.  The group will serve as master teachers in Indonesia, where they will train educators responsible for teaching the more than 1,000 teachers needed to replace those killed in the December 2004 tsunami.  WHEN:Tuesday, July 122:30 5 p.m.:  School supplies being packed6 p.m.:  Van being packed and leaving for Newark airport

"Whimsical Works: The Playful Designs of Charles and Ray Eames" Opens July 22 at Penn's Arthur Ross Gallery

PHILADELPHIA -- "Whimsical Works: The Playful Designs of Charles and Ray Eames" will be on display July 22-Sept. 11 at the Arthur Ross Gallery on the University of Pennsylvania campus.The exhibition will feature toys, children's furniture and whimsical films by Charles and Ray Eames.  All are lesser-known aspects of the work of this famous husband-and-wife design team, who introduced molded-plywood and plastic furniture to America in the mid-20th century.

Has Bill Cosby lost his mind?  

TALK/Michael Eric Dyson takes on Bill Cosby's criticism of poor blacks. Last year, at an NAACP event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, Bill Cosby castigated the black poor for their buying habits, lack of education, style of speech and dress—and even their names. “Lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting,” Cosby said in his now-famous speech. “They are buying things for kids—$500 sneakers for what? And won’t spend $200 for ‘Hooked on Phonics.’”

An 'opera of ideas' takes shape

Like any poet, Charles Bernstein chooses his words carefully. And in the 20 plus volumes of poetry he’s published, as well as in frequent readings over the years, the Regan Professor of English has presented those words in a clear, direct fashion, exercising artistic control over both the message and the medium.

At Work With...Paul Haraf

Staff Q&A: Bob Seddon

In his 34 years at Penn, Bob Seddon says he never felt as though he actually had a job. He never woke on a Monday morning and grumbled. He never watched the clock. And if it hadn’t been for his family and the dinner waiting for him at home, he says, he might have never left the office at night. “I couldn’t wait to get to work,” Seddon says. “I wouldn’t even eat breakfast some days—I’d just grab something and run out of the house. I had to get into the office.”

Capital campaign planned  

After just a few months on the job, John Zeller is ready to tackle his first major challenge at Penn: A new capital campaign that could help shape the future of the University.

Research roundup  

Charles Bernstein’s collaboration on “Shadowtime” got us thinking about other international projects Penn faculty are involved in this summer. Here’s a sampling of what some of them are up to: Vicki Mahaffey, professor of English, is in London, editing a book of essays on James Joyce’s “Dubliners,” and working at the British Library to complete a book, “Challenging Fictions: An Introduction to Literary Modernism, 1890-1940.”

Ask Benny: Tell me, is this public art or something else?

Dear Benny, What are the two structures outside of the Facilities building (at 3160 Chestnut St.) near the field? One looks like some sort of a tennis referee stand and the other is a recent concrete addition that looks like an inverted “L.”— Not Sure What I’m Looking At