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Enrique G. Mendoza Appointed Presidential Term Professor at Penn

    • Enrique G. Mendoza Appointed Presidential Term Professor at Penn

    PHILADELPHIA -- Enrique G. Mendoza, a scholar of international macroeconomics, has been named a Presidential Term Professor of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Jan. 1. 

    Jacquie Posey

    Touch Judaic History at Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center

    • Touch Judaic History at Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center

    At the University of Pennsylvania’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, you can touch some of the oldest tomes in the history of Judaism, and you don’t have to wear white gloves, de rigueur for patrons at some rare-book libraries.

    Jacquie Posey

    Penn Students Spend A Summer With Owl Monkeys — and Learn More Than Primatology

    • Penn Students Spend A Summer With Owl Monkeys — and Learn More Than Primatology

    It’s almost as far away from Philadelphia urban life as one can imagine. Or, to be precise, it’s a 14-hour plane ride followed by a 16-hour bus ride capped by a 40-minute ride in a truck away from the University of Pennsylvania campus.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Treasure hunt

    • Treasure hunt

    The Women’s Committee of the Penn Museum is bringing back its signature fundraiser, “TREASURES,” from Oct. 26-28. Tickets are $15 for the show or $25 for the show and admission to Museum exhibition “MAYA 2012: Lords of Time” (both tickets also include regular Museum admission).

    On the margins

    • On the margins

    In conjunction with the 2012-13 Penn Humanities Forum on Peripheries, the Penn Museum is presenting Culture Films, a documentary series with a th

    WXPN presents new strains of classic blues

    • WXPN presents new strains of classic blues

    The Mississippi blues have landed in Philly. The Mississippi Blues Project (MBP) is bringing musicians to town to showcase the breadth and depth of a music style that has received relatively limited exposure in this region.