School of Arts & Sciences

Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, has been widely assumed to be a disease of modern times, brought on by modern foods and lifestyles — until now.

The 10 RealArts@Penn summer internship positions aren’t jobs for gophers or work experiences that look better on resumes than in real life.

WHO:             Jane Willenbring                         Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science

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.

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.

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.

WHO:             Presenters: Gregory Mann, Columbia University

WHO:             Featured speakers and invited guests:

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.

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