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2025-02-05

Profiting from Immigrant Detention

Assistant Professor of Sociology Isabel Anadon discusses the relationship between prison building, privatization, and the expansion of the immigrant detention system in towns and counties across the U.S. since 1980. The talk is presented by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Immigration.

10:15 a.m.

College Hall

2025-03-15

Holi CultureFest! 2025

color powder on student's face during holi festival
Penn Museum collaborates with the South Asia Center at Penn for the 2025 CultureFest! for Holi. Attendees can enjoy traditional storytelling, colorful art-making, dynamic live music, and captivating dance performances, culminating in a color throw.

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

Deborah Stull

    • 2025-02-21

    Jesse Rothstein

    Jesse Rothstein, a professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, hosts a seminar about the role of social safety net programs in college student success.

    12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

    Solomon Hall, 3720 Walnut St.

    2025-02-06

    Scandinavian Social Democracy

    Jenny Andersson of Uppsala University in Sweden engages in conversation with Troels Skadhauge, a recent Penn Ph.D. graduate, about how Scandinavian social democracy diverges from liberal democracy.

    12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

    Zoom

    2025-02-18

    Managing Presentation Anxiety

    Penn Grad Center brick exterior with foliage
    Communication Within the Curriculum Associate Director Sue Weber offers tips and tricks to control anxiety during public speaking. A Penn graduate student ID is required.

    12:00 p.m.

    Penn Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk

    Mass deportations are ‘small investment’—Mike Johnson
    Newsweek

    Mass deportations are ‘small investment’—Mike Johnson

    Fernando Chang-Muy of Penn Carey Law says that mass deportation of immigrants would require funding appropriation from Congress to pay for additional staff, more prison space, and everything else that goes into running prisons.

    Jan 20, 2025

    Scientists create tiny anticancer weapons that make tumors destroy themselves
    Interesting Engineering

    Scientists create tiny anticancer weapons that make tumors destroy themselves

    Xiaowei (George) Xu of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues have unveiled an innovative approach to cancer treatment that leverages tiny capsules known as small extracellular vesicles to target a specific receptor on tumor cells.

    Jan 24, 2025

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