Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

Penn Student Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship

PHILADELPHIA – University of Pennsylvania senior Alexander Jacobs has been selected to receive a 2009 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. He becomes the 16th Penn student to win the award since it was established in 2001.

Penn Hosts Book Talk and Discussion Featuring "All You Can Eat: Hungry in America" Author Joel Berg

Solar Energy: Materials, Challenges, and Breakthroughs at the Penn Energy Research Group Symposium

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“Louis I. Kahn: The Making of a Room” Exhibition to Open at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery

PHILADELPHIA — “Louis I. Kahn: The Making of a Room,” which opens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery on Feb. 7, is an exhibit of 40 original drawings, exploring Kahn’s concept that the room is a building block of architecture.

Penn's Laurie O. Robinson Is Named Acting Assistant Attorney General for Office of Justice Programs

PHILADELPHIA –-Laurie O. Robinson, director of the University of Pennsylvania Criminology Department’s Master of Science Program, has been appointed acting assistant attorney general of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs.

2009 Winter Reading List

PHILADELPHIA – A group of students, alumni, faculty and staff of Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, has compiled a list of books that are perfect for winter reading. In alphabetical order they are:• “Breakdowns” by Art Spiegelman (2008)

“Obama and the World”: Penn Professors Discuss the Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Obama Administration

Danny Glover to Deliver Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice at Penn Jan. 21

WHO: Danny Glover, actor, producer and humanitarianWHAT: 9th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture in Social Justice WHEN: 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 21WHERE: Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Zellerbach Theater, 3680 Walnut St.

Penn Panel to Debate Local, Global Challenges to Sustainability at Jan. 16 Founder's Day Symposium

Penn's Center for the Advanced Study of India Receives MacArthur Foundation Grant to Study Diasporas

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania has received a $366,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support the Center for the Advanced Study of India, CASI, which will conduct empirically based case studies of diaspora/home country interactions.

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