3/14

Weingarten Center Disability Symposium

A sign in front of a stairwell reading, "Welcome to the Weingarten Center, Office of Learning Resources, Student Disabilities Services. Take the stairs or elevator to suite 300

Participate in disability programming, engage in educational activities, and learn more about disability issues at the 23rd Annual Weingarten Center Disability Symposium. Registration is free for Penn staff, faculty, and students.

All Day

Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St.

3/15

Holi CultureFest! 2025

color powder on student's face during holi festival

Penn Museum collaborates with the South Asia Center at Penn for the 2025 CultureFest! for Holi. Attendees can enjoy traditional storytelling, colorful art-making, dynamic live music, and captivating dance performances, culminating in a color throw.

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Penn Museum, 3260 South St.

3/17

Explaining Your Research

A student talks with an attendee about their poster during Penn’s CURF Poster Expo in Houston Hall.

This workshop, hosted by the Penn Graduate Student Center, is designed to help attendees use analogies and storytelling to explain their research and better connect with audiences. Participants will learn useful techniques for effective research communication. A graduate student ID is required.

10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Graduate Student Center, 3615 Locust Walk

3/19

Robert R. Marshak Public Lecture

To open the 2025 Institute for Infectious and Zoonotic Diseases Symposium, Peter Jay Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine will present the Robert R. Marshak Public Lecture, “Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Global Boiling and Anti-Science.” This event, co-hosted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, will be moderated by Michael Mann, director of the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media and vice provost for climate science, policy, and action.

6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Vernon and Shirley Hill Pavilion, 380 S. University Ave.

From Penn Arts & Sciences

researching working in simons observatory

A grant to upgrade Simons Observatory

Mark Devlin and colleagues have been awarded an NSF grant to upgrade the prominent observatory in the high Atacama Desert in Northern Chile.

From Penn Arts & Sciences ・May 12, 2023

Tree with spring foliage in front of Logan Hall on Penn’s College Green.

Penn’s new Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies

The new center will stimulate and support research and teaching on the Latin American region and the Latinx populations of the U.S. and provide an integrated academic base for scholars, students, and programs that focus on these topics.

From Penn Arts & Sciences ・May 3, 2021