Special Events

28   Purchasing Services Research Supplier Show; more than 30 research-related suppliers will provide the latest information on their products and services; 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Smilow Commons, Smilow Center for Translational Research; details and registation: https://cms.business-services.upenn.edu/purchasing/about/purchasing-events/550-special-event.html (Penn Purchasing Services).

29   Penn President Amy Gutmann and Former Vice President Joe Biden in Conversation; an open discussion, touching on global affairs and other topical subjects concluding with an audience Q&A. The event in Irvine Auditorium is sold out but will be live streamed, 3-4:30 p.m.; https://president.upenn.edu/bidenevent-3-29-18

Talks

28   China and Africa in the Xi Jinping Era; David H. Shinn, former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso; 3:30 p.m.; Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall (The Lauder Institute, Department of History, Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics).

      Forum on Afterlives: Environmental Science and the Post-Apocalyptic Novel; Lydia Millet, novelist and conservationist; 5 p.m., Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum; register: https://tinyurl.com/y7gndpzh (Wolf Humanities Center, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, Department of English).

AT PENN Deadlines

The April AT PENN calendar is now online. The deadline for the May AT PENN calendar is April 10.