Heather Davis

Photo credit: Mark Stehle WHO HE IS: Parking attendant/groundskeeper at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine YEARS AT PENN: 16

Revered in her home country of Chile, poet, human rights activist and feminist figure Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945. But Mistral’s life and work remains largely unknown to many North Americans and she has suffered (more than most) from what Randall Couch calls “simple-minded biographical criticism.”

WHAT: The Philadelphia Antiques Show is widely considered to be the country’s premier antiques and decorative arts show, with a loan exhibit and more than 50 dealers and galleries on hand to sell furniture,

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo Running the administrative arm of an institute that encompasses 400 faculty, students, staff and post-docs, from nine schools

Photo credit: Mark Stehle Philadelphia boasts five city ice rinks and one beside the Delaware, all created specifically for public skating.

Photo credit: Candace diCarlo WHO HE IS: Special Events Producer, WXPN TIME AT PENN: 2 1/2 years

Kalpen Modi—better-known as the TV and film actor Kal Penn—is on campus this semester to teach the class, “Asian Americans in the Media.” Modi, pictured here in Zellerbach Theatre, is using critical readings, trade publications, several iconic films and p

Forty years ago, the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders issued a report that revealed a deep racial divide in America.

Students in the School of Dental Medicine’s periodontal clinic used to work in a space first built in the 1940’s, sitting on chairs nearly a quarter-century old.

WHAT: This latest addition to the West Philly restaurant scene is an offshoot of the Lai family’s renowned Chinatown eatery, Vietnam.