Pam Kosty

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology offers its first annual Darwin Day celebration Feb. 12 from 1 to 5 p.m. The free event and evolution teach-in held in honor of the 197th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin, author of "On the Origin of Species" and the originator of the modern theory of evolution.

Expert Comment Available on Dover, Pa., Intelligent Design Case from the University of Pennsylvania  Note to TV producers and assignment editors: The University of Pennsylvania has an on-campus television studio with live-shot capability for interviews with Penn experts.

PHILADELPHIA -- The renowned British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to develop a comprehensive new master plan to take the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, its complex historical building and its international research, collections and educational outreach into the 21st century.

WHERE: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St., Philadelphia

Philadelphia -- University of Pennsylvania Museum archaeologists working at the renowned ancient site of Tiwanaku in Bolivia site sometimes called the "American Stonehenge" have joined forces with a team of engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and anthropologists from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Computer and Information Science, School of Engineering, the Center fo

PHILADELPHIA -- Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu in Northern China have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit was being produced as early as 9,000 years ago, approximately the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East.  

PHILADELPHIA-- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology will hold "Smiles, Laughter and Friends," its ninth annual Peace Around the World Dec. 5 from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA-- Suzan Shown Harjo, a leading Native American rights advocate, journalist, poet and president of The Morning Star Institute, a national Indian rights organization, will be the inaugural speaker in a year-long, four-part seminar series, "Dialogues Across Indian Country," sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Provost Seminar Fund.

Looking for a broader perspective on the 2004 Olympics Games in Athens, Greece? Log on to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's website: http://www.museum.upenn.edu for a day-by-day perspective on what's new--and what's not.

PHILADELPHIA, PA 2004 - The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has been awarded a three year, $301,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support an innovative research experience for undergraduates: "Native Voices, Past and Present, Studies of Native American Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology."