Penn researchers are using CT scanning to unlock the secrets of centuries-old basses and string instruments | Penn Today

9/25

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.

Through

9/28

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.

10/1

Sitting Still

Laurie Olin and two students seated at Woodlands Cemetery with drawing supplies.

DesignPhiladelphia and the Weitzman School present a screening of “Sitting Still,” a documentary film that sees the world through the lens of landscape designer Laurie Olin, a professor emeritus at the Weitzman School of Design.

7:30 p.m.

Meyerson Hall, 210 S. 34th St.

10/16

BioBlitz

A person sits reading in Penn's Biopond

Penn Vet hosts a bi-annual BioBlitz, bringing together stewards of the environment at Penn. Participants can discover the diversity of animals on campus.

3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Kaskey Park (Penn BioPond)

Penn researchers are using CT scanning to unlock the secrets of centuries-old basses and string instruments

Peter Noël of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues are using CT scanners to unlock the mysteries of ancient string instruments.

September 24, 2024 ・ From WHYY (Philadelphia)