Update: January AT PENN
Children’s Activities
Penn Museum
Online events. Info: www.penn.museum/calendar.
25 At-Home Anthro Live: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac; 1 p.m.
Exhibits
Penn Museum
Online and in-person events. Info: www.penn.museum/calendar.
21 Virtual Global Guide Tour: Mexico & Central American Gallery; 2:30 p.m.
Fitness & Learning
21 SNF Paideia Fellows Meet and Greet; hear from Class of 2024 students about their experience in the SNF Paideia Fellowship Program; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/paideia-info-jan-21 (SNF Paideia Program).
Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships
Online webinars. Info: https://www.curf.upenn.edu/curf-events.
21 Fellowships Explained; 2 p.m.
Udall Information Session and Scholar Panel; 4 p.m.
Graduate School of Education (GSE)
Unless noted, online events. Info: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar.
20 Penn GSE Teacher Programs Information Session; 5 p.m.
21 Friday Virtual Chats with Admissions; noon.
Readings & Signings
19 Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University; 12:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: https://tinyurl.com/chun-talk-jan-19 (Annenberg School).
Talks
18 Conditional Calibration: Controlling FDR Under Dependence and Uniformly Improving Knockoff Methods; Will Fithian, UC Berkeley; BlueJeans webinar; register: https://bluejeans.com/113449012/0327 (Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics).
19 Plant Chromatin “Senses” Mechanical Stress; Kateryna Fal, Université de Lyon; 11 a.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/mechanobiology-spring-2022 (Center for Engineering MechanoBiology).
Human Monoclonal Antibody Therapy for HIV-1 Infection; Michel C. Nussenzweig, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; noon; BlueJeans webinar; join: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/xqbzwhrb (Penn Center for AIDS Research, Microbiology).
Tackling Disease-Associated Biomolecules: From RNA Therapeutics to Single-Molecule Detection; Connie Wu, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; 3:30 p.m.; Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Building; info: https://cbe.seas.upenn.edu/events/ (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).
Tulip Figures and Ottoman Fashions in Renaissance Art and Natural History; Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia; 4:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: jgreebel@sas.upenn.edu (English).
20 Cardiovascular Safety of Biologic and Targeted-Synthetic DMARDs in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis; Seo Young Kim, Harvard; 9 a.m.; BlueJeans webinar; join: https://bluejeans.com/873734674/4747?src=join_info (Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics).
How Do Tissues Fracture and Repair Across Length Scales? Ottman Tertuliano, MEAM; 10:30 a.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/tertuliano-talk-jan-20 (Materials Science & Engineering).
Special Briefing: 2022 Outlook for States and Cities; panel of speakers; 11 a.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/iur-briefing-jan-20 (Penn Institute for Urban Research).
Embodying the Complexity of Korean Queerness: Affective Counter-profiling, Affective Solidarity, and Reconfigured Citizenship; Woori Han, CDCS; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/han-talk-jan-20 (Korean Studies).
Engineering New Tools to Understand Airway Mucosal Barrier Function; Gregg Duncan, University of Maryland; 3:30 p.m.; room 216, Moore Building and Zoom webinar; info: be@seas.upenn.edu (Bioengineering).
Aristophanic Gyno-Futures: Reproduction Transness Disability; Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley; 4:45 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/classical-studies-spring-2022 (Classical Studies).
The Origins and Futures of the Modern Research University; Emily Levine, Stanford; 5 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/levine-talk-jan-20 (History, Wolf Humanities Center, German, GSE).
21 Becoming a Resilient Scientist; Sharon Milgram, NIH; 10 a.m.; Zoom webinar; info: bgsa.academic@gmail.com (Biomedical Graduate Studies).
Exploration of Deep-Sea Environments Using Passive Acoustic Technologies; Holger Klinck, Cornell; 3 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: https://earth.sas.upenn.edu/events/ees-seminar-series-dr-holger-klinck (Earth & Environmental Studies).
24 On the Cohomology of Seaweed Algebras; Alan Hylton and Vince Coll, Lehigh; 2 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96850916585 (Mathematics).
For Better or Worse: The Role of Social Identity in the Pandemic; Jay Van Bavel, NYU; 3:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; info: https://tinyurl.com/van-bavel-talk-jan-24 (Psychology).
Indigenous Identities and Activism; panel of speakers; 4 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/93569894889#success (Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies).
Making and Knowing in Early Modern How-To Texts; Pamela H. Smith, Columbia; 5:15 p.m.; online webinar; info: https://pennmaterialtexts.org/about/events/ (Workshop in the History of Material Texts).
25 Orchestrating B Cell Responses to Drive Protective T Cell Immunity to Solid Tumors; Chrystal Paulos, Emory University; noon; GoToMeeting webinar; join: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/227215405 (Wistar Institute).
The Hippocampus: A Brain Region Worth Remembering; Douglas Coulter, pediatrics; Amelia Eisch, anesthesiology and critical care; Dong Wang, Drexel University; 6 p.m.; Crowdcast webinar; register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/neurolecture-hippocampus (Biomedical Graduate Studies).
Continuing Education Series: Current Oncology Clinical Trials and New Therapies for Cancer; Brian Flesner, oncology; 7 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: www.alumni.upenn.edu/oncotrialsjan25 (Penn Vet).
Penn Dental
Unless noted, online webinars. Info: https://www.dental.upenn.edu/news-events/events/.
21 Oral Appliances and TMDs; Charles Greene, University of Illinois Chicago; 7 p.m.
Economics
Online webinars. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.
19 Designing Representative and Balanced Experiments by Local Randomization; Max Cytrynbaum, MIT; 12:30 p.m.
20 Redesigning Federal Student Aid in Higher Education; Luis Armona, Stanford; noon.
21 (Don't) Take Me Home: Home Bias and the Effect of Self-Driving Trucks on Interstate Trade; Ron Yang, Harvard; noon.
24 Affirmative Action in Centralized College Admission Systems: Evidence from Brazil; Sebastian Otero, Stanford; noon.
25 Monitoring Team Members: Information Waste and the Self-Promotion Trap; Matteo Camboni, Northwestern University; noon.
Sociology
Locations TBA. Info: https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/events.
20 Marriage Engagements in New Delhi; Megan Reed, sociology.
24 Family Composition among US Children: Dynamic, Diverse, and Dispersed; Paula Fomby, University of Michigan.
Parenting and the Transition to Adulthood; Elena Van Stee, sociology.
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AT PENN Deadlines
For more events, visit the January AT PENN calendar online. The February AT PENN calendar will be published on January 25. To submit an event for a future AT PENN calendar or update, email the salient details to us at almanac@upenn.edu.