On Wednesday night, hungry students at the Hill College House dining hall were treated to three unique items on the menu.
Chef Tim Spinner (pictured, right) of the West Philadelphia-based Mexican restaurant, Distrito, was on hand to prepare chicken enchiladas, crab guacamole and esquites, or Mexican street-style corn, as part of Penn Dining's Guest Chef series. More than 700 students attended the event.
The Guest Chef series is designed to infuse excellence and variety into the University’s dining program while also showcasing the food and flair of talented chefs, and providing a culinary learning experience for Penn Dining staffers.
Past events have featured Chef/Proprietor Betty Foo of Hunan Restaurant; Chef/Proprietor Daniel Stern of Rae Restaurant; Executive Chef Artie Cavaliere of El Vez, a member of the Stephen Starr Restaurant Group; Executive Chef Paul Navjot of Café Spice; Chef/Proprietor Michael Chow of Peking Duck; and most recently, Chef Matt Babbage of World Cafe Live.
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
