Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences

PHILADELPHIA - The winners have been announced in the University of Pennsylvania's Field Center for Children's Policy, Practice & Research's documentary film contest, a part of National Child Abuse Prevention month.

PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine has launched the first veterinary medicine awards of its kind designed to recognize innovation, creativity and leadership in the veterinary profession anywhere in the world.  

PHILADELPHIA - MP3 sound files of rare poetry recordings of Ezra Pound, as well as a set of his previously unknown private recordings made in 1962-1972, are now available for download on PennSound, writing.upenn.edu/pennsound.  Based at the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is the largest archive of digital poetry recordings online.  

PHILADELPHIA-- The Project on Civic Engagement, based at the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government, is spotlighting Philadelphia public schools, the mayors race and City Council races in a continuing series of citizen forums called Great Expectations: Citizens Voices on Philadelphia's Future.

PHILADELPHIA - The William Penn Foundation has awarded a $600,000, three-year grant to the University of Pennsylvania, in support of the Kids Integrated Data System project.

PHILADELPHIA - Kal Penn, star of the new film "The Namesake" and known for his role as Kumar in the movie "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," will be a guest instructor at the University of Pennsylvania.  He will teach two undergraduate courses in the spring semester of 2008 tentatively titled "Images of Asian Americans in the Media" and "Contemporary American Teen Films."

WHO: Sheryl Swoopes, Olympic gold medalist and WNBA most valuable playerWHEN: 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, 2007 WHERE: Harrison Auditorium University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology33rd and Spruce streets

WHO: David FreidenreichCenter for Advanced Judaic StudiesUniversity of Pennsylvania WHAT: Lecture on "Food Fellowship and Foreigners: Who You Aren't Supposed to Eat With and Why in Judaism, Christianity and Islam" WHEN: 8 p.m., Thursday, March 8, 2007 WHERE: Uhr LibraryTemple Beth Shalom

MEDIA ADVISORYFormer U.N. Ambassador Stephen Lewis to Speak at PennWHO:Stephen Lewis, former U.N. Ambassador and Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in AfricaWHEN:Feb. 27, 2007, 6 p.m.WHERE:University of Pennsylvania Huntsman Hall Auditorium, Room G-0634th and Spruce streets

WHO: Energy Working Group at Penn, a multi-disciplinary group of University of Pennsylvania scientists and engineersGeorge Crabtree, senior scientist and director of the materials science division of the Argonne National Laboratory Joanne Milliken, director of the U.S. Energy Department hydrogen program