UPDATE

February at Penn


CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY

28 Children's Story Teller; Ise Nii-Owoo, author of A is for Africa: Looking at Africa Through the Alphabet; 10:30-11:30 a.m.; Lobby, Penn Tower Hotel (Penn Tower Hotel).

EXHIBITS

Upcoming

21 First Year MFA Show; Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall; opening reception, February 23, 6-8 p.m. (Fine Arts). Through March 5.

23 October Gallery; Black Art Exhibition; Black History Month celebration; 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Lobby, Penn Tower Hotel (Penn Tower Hotel).

FILMS

Latin American Film Festival

Screenings at 6:30 p.m.; Room B-21, Stiteler Hall (Latin American Cultures Program). Continues through the semester.

22 Confesion a Laura; subtitled.

29 Los Olvidados; subtitled.

SPEC Film Society

Screenings at 7 and 9:30 p.m.; Irvine Auditorium; $3, $2/with PennCard.

22 The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, USA, 1969)

23 Friday (Gray, USA, 1995)

TALKS

21 Mechanisms of Tissue Selective Actions of Estrogen; C. Richard Lyttle, Wyeth Ayerst Labs; noon; Auditorium, Dulles Bldg. (Center for Research on Reproduction; Women's Health).

The Effect of Unobserved Plan Attributes on the Health Plan Choices of Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries; Katherine Harris, University of Minnesota; 12-1:30 p.m.; Boardroom, Colonial Penn Center (Health Care Systems).

22 Longitudinal Models for the Analyses of Development Outcome in Low Birthweight Infants; Isaac Nuamah, Cancer Center; 9-10 a.m.; Rm. 701, Blockley Hall (UPMC Clinical Epidemiology Health Services).

School Reform as Prevention; An Ecological Approach to Risk Reduction & Developmental Enhancement; Robert Felner, University of Illinois; 10-11 a.m., Rm. C-12, GSE (Psychology in Education).

Imaging Electric Currents in the Body Using MRI; Michael Joy, University of Toronto; 11 a.m.; Rm. 337, Towne Bldg. (Bioengineering; Electrical Engineering).

26 Maternal Support Among Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents; G. Anne Bogat, Michigan State; 12-1 p.m., Rm. C-12, GSE (Psychology in Education).

Nazism and Holocaust in Contemporary Discourse; Steven Aschleim, Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Princeton; 4 p.m.; Rm. 103, Williams Hall (German; Jewish Studies).

27 Comprehension, Cognition, and Critical Evaluation in a Multicultural Classroom; Angela Rickford, Stanford; 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; Rm. C-12, GSE (Reading/Writing/Literacy Search Committee).



The Glee Club's
spring show
starts this
Thursday at
the Annenberg
Center. Details:
898-GLEE.



Almanac

February 20, 1996
Volume 42 Number 21


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