School of Arts & Sciences

Willenbring to Discuss Antarctica, Climate Change at Penn Science Café March 12

WHO: Jane Willenbring Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

Penn IUR Honors Leaders in Urban Food Systems at the Ninth Annual Urban Leadership Forum

The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) hosts the 9th Annual Urban Leadership Forum on Wednesday March 13th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm to celebrate exemplary leaders in the effort to build resilient, food-secure, and livable cities.

Groundbreaking Penn Conference Tackles the Complex of Urbanization and Food

Feeding Cities: Food Security in a Rapidly Urbanizing World, the first international conference examining the critical link between urbanization and food security, will be held at the University of Pennsylvania from Wednesday, March 13, through Friday, March 15, 2013.

Fels Institute Hosts Second Annual National Invitation Public Policy Challenge March 16-17

The National Invitational Public Policy Challenge of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania is a competition for graduate-student teams from invited universities across the country.

Penn's Africa Center Presents Roundtable on 'Mali: Islamic Militarism and Foreign Intervention'

WHO: Presenters: Gregory Mann, Columbia University

University of Pennsylvania Hosts Day-long Symposium on 'The Politics of Black Women’s Hair' March 1

WHO: Featured speakers and invited guests:

Paul Mitchell: At Penn, Four Years of Looking at the Past

Paul Mitchell’s deep interest in anthropology and in exploring human evolution and variation was sparked by his first course in the fall of 2009 during his freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania. “I thought it was the most interesting and intellectually stimulating thing I’ve ever seen,” he says.

The Penn Science Café and Penn Lightbulb Café Return

PHILADELPHIA-- The Penn Science Café and the Penn Lightbulb Café are back, bringing the University of Pennsylvania’s top scholars out on the town to share their re

Professor Salamishah Tillet to Discuss Hollywood Depictions of Slavery at Penn Lightbulb Café Feb. 26

WHO: Salamishah TilletAssistant Professor of EnglishUniversity of Pennsylvania

Penn Cosmologists Join Euclid Space Telescope Mission

PHILADELPHIA — NASA has nominated three U.S. science teams to participate in the European Space Agency's planned Euclid mission, a space telescope designed to probe the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter and scheduled to launch in 2020.

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