PHILADELPHIA -- On Oct. 28-29, the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania will convene "Equity and Race in a Democratic Society," a symposium focusing on the inequality within communities and schools and the inequities in private and public institutions serving minority and poor children and families, social problems that have persisted despite Brown v.

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Center for Community Partnerships has received an honorable mention at the 2004 third annual Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Awards. The awards highlight the power and potential of partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions as a strategy for improving health.

PHILADELPHIA -- The Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School has been recognized by KnowledgeWorks Foundation as one of just 14 schools in the nation that best exemplifies a growing national trend to build schools as centers of community.

WHO:Roy Vagelos, retired CEO of Merck and former chairman of Penn Board of Trustees.WHAT:Vagelos will be talking about his new book "Medicine, Science, and Merck."WHEN:6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 7WHERE:Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania and Sayre High School are holding the "Penn-West Philadelphia Community Celebration Day and Health Fair" at the Sayre campus, 58th and Walnut streets, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 9.

PHILADELPHIA -- John W. Fantuzzo, a University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education professor, has received the Head Start Research Mentor Award from the federal Administration for Children and Families.Fantuzzo is the third recipient of the award, which previously has gone to Ed Zigler and Julius Richmond, the two people most responsible for the creation of the program.

PHILADELPHIA -- In partnership with the Philadelphia Mayor's domestic violence task force, The University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work is hosting its second conference on domestic violence, "Finding New Directions for Responding to Intimate Violence," June 25-26, at Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 3730 Walnut St.

WHO:Eighteen midshipmen from the University of Pennsylvania NROTC unit, which includes students from Penn and Drexel and Temple universities, guest military speakers and hundreds of on-looking family members.WHAT:In a time-honored military ceremony, the midshipmen will get ensign and lieutenant bars and officially become officers in the Navy and Marine Corps.

PHILADELPHIA -- University of Pennsylvania History Professor Steven Hahn has been awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book  "Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South From Slavery to the Great Migration." Hahn is a specialist on the social and political history of 19th-century America, on the history of the American South and on the comparative hi

PHILADELPHIA -- Reading to your pre-schooler should never be a chore for parents or kids.