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2025-12-03

14th Annual CT3N Symposium

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The 2025 CT3N Symposium will feature outstanding speakers in the fields of targeted therapeutics, drug delivery, biomaterials, and nanomedicine, with a focus on targeting the central nervous system. The symposium can be attended in person or via live webcast.

All Day

Hybrid; Smilow Center for Translational Research, 3400 Civic Center Blvd.

2025-10-09

Public Health in Crisis

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Peter Marks, former director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA, will talk about the crisis in confidence in public health, how this has led to challenges with vaccine acceptance, and what can be done to address the issue. Free and open to the Penn community. Lunch will be served for in-person attendees. Register to attend.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Smilow Center for Translational Research, 3400 Civic Center Blvd.

2025-09-17

Losing Trust in Vaccines: The Measles Story

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Paul Offit, the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at the Perelman School of Medicine, will explore why more patients are choosing non-medical exemptions for vaccinations than ever before and the impacts of that choice. Free and open to the Penn community.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Virtual

2025-09-03

The Informatics of Learning Health Networks

Hanieh Razzaghi, associate director of the PEDSnet Data Coordinating Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, will discuss informatics requirements for the success of national learning networks. The talk will focus on approaches that enhance the reliability of studies using clinical data. Open to the Penn community.

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Virtual

2025-09-25

What Happened Before ChatGPT?

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Conversations about computer-generated text often omit the long history of work in this area, instead focusing on the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. A panel of editors of and contributors to the anthology, “Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023,” will discuss, contextualize, and celebrate milestones in generation systems and software over seven decades. Register to attend.

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

2025-12-06

Penn Sound Collective

Penn Sound Collective is a group of doctoral fellows in music composition at Penn dedicated to presenting and promoting each other's work. Free and open to the Penn community.

7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut St.

2025-12-05

Film Festival: New Italian Cinema

New Italian Cinema is an annual festival centered around showing and celebrating the latest Italian feature films. Entering its 25th year, this festival will present a program of films by outstanding first-time directors. Free and open to the public.

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

2025-11-17

Screening: One Day We Arrived in Japan

Since 1990, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians of Japanese descent and their families have gone to work in Japan. “One Day We Arrived in Japan” follows the stories of three such Brazilian families. This film screening and Q&A with director Aaron Litvin will uncover the gripping personal experiences behind a major transnational phenomenon.

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut St.

2025-09-22

Japan Global Issues Film Series: Hafu

“Hafu” follows the lives of five “hafus,” the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese. Through a film screening and Q&A with co-director Megumi Nishikura, attendees will explore the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese people and their multicultural experience in modern day Japan.

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut St.

2025-09-25

PAC Con 2025

PAC Con is an annual, multi-day gathering—hosted by the Platt Student Performing Arts House—for performing arts groups to learn, share, and build community. Programming features informational and topical sessions led by arts-related centers and departments across campus.

All Day

Platt Student Performing Arts House, 3702 Spruce St.