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2025-09-09

Engaging Americans of African Ancestry in Neuroscience Research

Founded in 2019, the African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) is a collaboration between African American community leaders in Baltimore and leading research institutions that aims to address and rectify longstanding disparities in neuroscience research. This talk, hosted by Penn Medical Ethics & Health Policy, will feature AANRI co-founder Alvin C. Hathaway discussing related progress in neuroscience.

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

Hybrid; Richards Medical Research Laboratories, 3700 Hamilton Walk

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Hung Liu: Happy and Gay

Hung Liu was a Chinese-born American contemporary artist whose work spanned painting, mixed-media, and site-specific installations. Liu, who came of age during the era of Mao Zedong, was trained as an artist in the official Socialist Realist style. Happy and Gay is a traveling exhibition that presents a selection of Liu’s works from 2011-2013.

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Fisher Fine Arts Library, 220 S. 34th St.

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