Penn Museum Hosts Free Darwin Day and Evolution Teach-In Feb. 12

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.

Pam Kosty

Expert Comment Available on Dover, Pa., Intelligent Design Case

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.

Pam Kosty, Greg Lester

Renowned Architect David Chipperfield Selected to Create New Master Plan for Penn Museum

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.

Pam Kosty

Penn Museum Begins Ground-breaking Project to Create Underground Image of Pre-Inca City

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

Pam Kosty

Penn Museum Archaeochemist and International Scholars Confirm 9,000-Year History of Chinese Fermented Beverages

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.  

Pam Kosty

Suzan Harjo Will be Inaugural Speaker for "Dialogues Across Indian Country" Seminar Series at Penn Museum

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.

Jacquie Posey, Pam Kosty

University of Pennsylvania Museum Awarded Three-Year, $301,000 Grant from the National Science Foundation for Native American Research Opportunities for Undergraduates

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."

Pam Kosty