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2023-03-24

Black Opry Residency Showcase

Exterior of World Cafe Live with signage

As part of the XPN Black Opry Residency, five Black Americana, country, and folk artists will showcase their capstone project performances. Frankie Staton is featured as a special guest.

7:00 p.m.

Music Hall, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St.

2023-03-23

Voting Rights in America

A display of balloons that read VOTE in Houston Hall.

Penn’s Office of Social Equity and Community hosts a forum where scholars and activists discuss the current reality of voting rights in the U.S.

2:00 p.m.

Virtual

2023-04-01

TEDxPenn: (R)evolution

At the largest student-run TEDx conference in the world, 10-plus speakers are invited to engage with politics, entertainment, STEM, art, social media influencing, and more. Speakers include Anthony Russo, director of several Marvel films, and Pennsylvania State Representative Jordan Harris.

1:00 p.m.

Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St.

2023-03-22

Jayson Musson and Ken Lum

The Arthur Ross Gallery hosts a conversation between Jayson Musson, the inaugural David Evans Family Artist-in-Residence, and Ken Lum, the Marilyn Jordan Taylor Professor in the Weitzman School of Design and chair of Fine Arts.

5:30 p.m.

Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S. 34th St.

Featured Books: Women’s History Month

Additional materials to celebrate Women’s History Month are on view in the Penn Libraries special collections: “Marian Anderson: A Singer’s Journey” and “Women Poets of the Renaissance” are collected in special editions in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. “Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica” is also part of the Caroline F. Schimmel Fiction Collection of Women in the American Wilderness.

WCVB (Boston)

Who’s to blame for Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank failures?

Eugene Kiely of the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org discusses the causes behind the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Hard freeze early Sunday and Monday in the Philly region could kill some ambitious blooms and blossoms

Bill Cullina of the Morris Arboretum says that magnolias and cherry blossoms may be vulnerable to cold Philadelphia temperatures, though most plants will likely be fine.

Philadelphia Inquirer

More people are testing their dogs’ DNA. That helped these two Philly siblings reunite

Margret Casal of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that the accuracy of tests for dog-breed identification depends on the “DNA library” a company has access to.

NBC News

Texas has taken over the Houston school district. Educational outcomes have not always improved in other states that have done so

Jonathan Supovitz of the Graduate School of Education says that there’s evidence in both directions on the question of whether state takeover of individual districts can improve student learning.

Philadelphia Inquirer

SEPTA stops work on proposed King of Prussia Rail Line after federal government denies funding

Doctoral student Jay Arzu of the Weitzman School of Design outlines SEPTA transit projects that could replace its scrapped $3 billion King of Prussia line.