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Through

2/14

Energy Week 2025

Penn Schools, centers, institutes, student groups, and more host events for Energy Week 2025, ranging from Lightning Talks hosted by the Kleinman Center to a talk about climate change and artificial intelligence, hosted by the Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative.

All Day

Various locations

2/12

Penn and Pencil Reading

Exterior of the Kelly Writers House with a path to the front door.

Penn staff who are members of the Penn and Pencil creative writing club share poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

6:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

2/18

Managing Presentation Anxiety

Penn Grad Center brick exterior with foliage

Communication Within the Curriculum Associate Director Sue Weber offers tips and tricks to control anxiety during public speaking. A Penn graduate student ID is required.

12:00 p.m.

Penn Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk

3/4

Songs of Love and Loss

Penn Museum exterior

In collaboration with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Penn Museum presents flutist Emi Ferguson and harpist Ashley Jackson for a conversation and musical demonstration, moderated by Assyriologist Paul Delnero. The conversation will explore the role of the flute and harp in Sumerian culture.

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

Women Deterred From Many Fields by Stereotypes of ‘Brilliance’

Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Women tend to think they have to be the next Einstein before they become a physicist.”

January 15, 2015 ・ From Bloomberg View