Update

December AT PENN

African Violet, by Betty McLaughlin, is on display at the Morris Arboretum in the exhibit Plants for All Reasons. It will be on display through February 19.

change

The reading by Edward Rosenthal on December 6 at the Penn Bookstore will be at 5 p.m.

Exhibit

Now Body Maps; life-size canvases and watercolors by South African AIDS patients, depicting their physical and emotional pain and their visions of hope for the future; Annenberg School for Communication. Through January 15, 2006.

SPECIAL EVENT

9 Dancefusion presents The 12 Days of Christmas; the familiar Christmas carol, danced by neighborhood children, teens, and professional dancers; short performance: 10 a.m., $10/all seats; full performance: December 10, 7:30 p.m., $10-$22; Iron Gate Theatre, 37th & Chestnut Sts.; info.: (215) 222-7633 (Gwendolyn Bye Dance).

Talks

8 The Oxygen Sensor in Tumors–Are Mitochondria Involved?; Joan Turner, University of Alberta; noon; Conference Room, John Morgan Bldg. (Radiation Oncology).

Tribal Critical Race Theory: A Case Study; Bryan Brayboy, University of Utah; 4 p.m.; Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum (Museum).

Hope: The Magic Bullet?; George Vaillant, Harvard Medical School; 7 p.m.; Auditorium, BRB II/III (Penn Medicine).

9 Real-Time Kinetics of Gene Activity in Individual Bacteria; Ido Golding, Princeton University; 11 a.m.; rm. 251, BRB II/III (Biochemistry and Biophysics).

Deadlines: The deadline for the weekly Update is  every Tuesday , for the following Tuesday’s issue. The deadline for the January AT PENN calendar is today, December 6. For information see www.upenn.edu/almanac/calendar/caldead-real.html.