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After 50 Brutalist years, the Annenberg Center plans to stretch out, open up

Penn Live Arts plans to transform Annenberg Plaza into a new performance space, the Stuart Weitzman Theater, expanding the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for the first time in 51 years.

C-SPAN

Philadelphia Business Journal

University City is running out of real estate for life sciences development. The answer? Densification

At a Philadelphia Business Journal event, Senior Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli discussed the lack of available land in Philadelphia for life sciences development and the need for densification.

C-SPAN

Kathleen Hall Jamieson on civics education

In a video interview, Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center discusses the Center’s Constitution Day civics survey and the importance of civics education.

9/13

GradFest 2022

GAPSA and the Graduate Student Center present GradFest 2022, a twelve-day festival to welcome all graduate and professional students to the University of Pennsylvania with a variety of activities.

All Day

Various locations

9/20

National Voter Registration Day

Penn Leads the Vote hosts the annual National Voter Registration Day event as a way to increase voter turnout and engagement among the Penn community. Food will be served.

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

College Green

9/22

Children’s Environmental Health

The Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health hosts its inaugural seminar series, with one talk scheduled each month on topics about air pollution, lead poisoning, and perinatal health inequity, among others. The Center is a collaboration between the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Penn Medicine.

3:00 p.m.

Virtual

Biochemist Kathy Fange Liu is driven to push RNA research boundaries

The assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics and principal investigator of the Kathy Liu Lab in the Perelman School of Medicine specifically studies enzymes that modify RNA in the body’s cells that can impact human disease.

Penn Dental to join innovative collaboration at PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar

Plans are underway to open a PHMC Dental facility at PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar, with dental care provided by a mix of dental students and AEGD residents at a state- of-the-art, 11-chair facility in 2023.

Why the housing market is not in recession

Housing sales are falling in response to rising interest rates, but the real estate market is not in a recession, according to Wharton’s Fernando Ferreira. He explains why the persistent lack of supply will continue to put pressure on homebuyers.