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James Corner earns 2024 IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in Landscape Architecture

James Corner earns 2024 IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in Landscape Architecture

The practice professor emeritus and past chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture has been awarded by the International Federation of Landscape Architects for his influence in a range of work from built projects to theoretical works, writings, and teaching activities.

Sarah Jackson and Desmond Patton awarded NSF grant to create cross-institutional program supporting STEM researchers from underrepresented backgrounds

Sarah Jackson and Desmond Patton awarded NSF grant to create cross-institutional program supporting STEM researchers from underrepresented backgrounds

A partnership between Penn, Northwestern University, and New York University aims to provide more opportunities for historically underrepresented researchers conducting critical technology research.

2024-09-26

Global Health Research

As part of the Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series, Gagandeep Kang of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will discuss lessons learned from India to promote gut health everywhere in the world. A panel will include Sara Cherry, Surbhi Grover, and Glen Gaulton of the Perelman School of Medicine.

4:30 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

2024-09-18

Research Communication

Penn Grad Center brick exterior with foliage
The Penn Graduate Student Center hosts a series of workshops for graduate students interested in ways to clearly convey their research. Opportunities range from a poster design workshop to a session on how to manage presentation anxiety.

12:00 a.m.

Penn Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk

2024-09-18

Postdoc Ice Cream Social

Penn postdocs are invited to an ice cream social in celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week.

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Biomedical Research Building, 421 Curie Blvd.

2024-09-27

Pilobolus

Dancers posing.
Penn Live Arts presents a collection of dance performances by Pilobolus, three of which are Philadelphia premieres.

8:00 p.m.

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St.

2024-09-25

Penn Student Making Workshop

Penn Museum exterior
Penn Museum hosts a making workshop for Penn students to become more familiar with the Museum's collection. Here, students can learn about Navajo weaving with Lucy Fowler Williams, as well as get a look at Navajo textiles in the Museum collection.

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

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

2024-09-12

The World Today

Exterior of the Perry World House.
Perry World House kicks off the academic year with a panel that includes Annenberg School for Communication Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser, Faculty Director of Perry World House Michael C. Horowitz, and Deputy Director of Perry World House Michael Weisberg. The panel will look at the world through the lens of their own expertise of democracy, climate change, security, and human rights and global justice.

12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

Hybrid; Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk

2024-09-20

XPoNential Music Fest 2024

WXPN presents the 31st edition of its annual music festival. This year will feature 23 performances on two stages over three days.

12:00 a.m.

Wiggins Waterfront Park; Camden, New Jersey

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