Heather A. Davis

Director, News Publications

The Year of Comics at Penn

Galleries and classrooms around Penn are filled with images of both classic comic book superheores and the subversive antiheroes of the comics of the 60s and 70s, animation from both small and big studios and even a high-definition video screened at the Venice Biennale.

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Race and the 2008 election

The nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s Presidential candidate has been hailed as the beginning of the “post-racial” time in American politics.

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An intro to (green) Penn

The PennGreen pre-orientation program that student leaders are planning for August 2009 will give incoming freshman a “green” introduction to both Penn and Philadelphia.

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Science Pioneer

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Renowned physicist, longtime Penn professor and World War II refugee Fay Ajzenberg-Selove says before her father sent her off to engineering school at the Uni

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Live Arts and Fringe

WHAT: The Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival, now in its 11th year, features some of the most groundbreaking, provo

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