Through 4/26 Earth Week 2024 This is a campuswide week of events, lectures, and volunteer opportunities designed to educate and inspire action related to environmental justice, climate, and nature-based solutions. This year’s theme is Restore & Regenerate. 12:00 a.m. Various locations
4/25 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Reception The vice provost for education and the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation celebrate the Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students. The reception will honor the 10 winners in departments ranging from Anthropology to Neuroscience. 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Penn Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk
4/26 GreenFest At this annual tabling festival, student organizations share their visions and projects related to environmental sustainability and environmental justice. 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. College Green
Through 4/30 Maggie Nelson Scholar and poet Maggie Nelson reads. Nelson is the author of several poetry collections, including “The Argonauts,” which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2015. A conversation with her will follow on April 30 at 10 a.m. 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 a.m. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
Penn In the News Pentagon’s Research Arm Seeks Wider Relationship With University Scientists The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was created in 1958 in the aftermath of the Sputnik launch, part of a determined effort by the Pentagon to ensure that the United States and its military always have access to cutting-edge technology. The agency now has an annual budget of close to $3 billion, which over the years it has used to develop such major technologies as synthetic biology, carbon nanotubes, and the Internet itself. May 13, 2016 ・From Chronicle Higher Education