Fitness & Learning

4          Japan Week: CEAS Open House; visit the Center for East Asian Studies and learn about our events, opportunities, and a special Ikebana demonstration by Ikebana International; 2 p.m.; room 642, Williams Hall (Center for East Asian Studies).

5          Grant-Writing Workshop; learn how you can better position yourself to be a competitive applicant for the College Alumni Society Research Grant or Vagelos Undergraduate Research Grant; 3:30 p.m.; room 202, 3539 Locust Walk (Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships).

            Penn in Florence Info Session; learn about studying abroad in Florence and have pizza with people who have completed the program; 5 p.m.; room 623, Williams Hall (Italian Studies).

6          Fall 2023 Accelerated Bachelor’s to Master’s Degree Program Information Session; undergraduates are invited to learn more about the Accelerated Bachelor’s to Master’s Degree Program, an opportunity to apply up to four Penn GSE course units dually to a Penn undergraduate degree and a Penn GSE master’s degree; noon; room 211, Gutmann College House; register: https://tinyurl.com/gse-workshop-oct-6. (Graduate School of Education).

            Goldwater Scholarship Information Session; join recent Penn Goldwater Scholars and CURF staff to learn about the Goldwater Scholarship, which awards scholarships to sophomores and juniors who intend to earn a PhD or Master's degree in a STEM field; 4 p.m.; room 242, Van Pelt Library; register: https://tinyurl.com/curf-workshop-oct-6 (Center for Undergraduate Research & Fellowships).

9          Religious Studies PhD Application Information Session; will cover basic eligibility requirements, English language proficiency scores, the basic components of the application, the basic criteria the Graduate Group uses to select applicants, and other general pointers for how to approach the application process; 6:30 p.m.; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/rels-workshop-oct-9 (Religious Studies).

Graduate School of Education

Online webinars. Info and to register: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/events-calendar?date=2023-10.

3          Education Entrepreneurship Virtual Information Session; 7 p.m.

9          Urban Teaching Residency & Urban Education (Online) Virtual Information Session; 7 p.m.

Meetings

5          Penn Aces and Aros Meeting; learn about the affinity group for Penn's asexual and aromantic community; meetings held bi-weekly; 7 p.m.; Gordon-Buono Student Lounge, LGBT Center (LGBT Center).

Readings & Signings

10        Inner Voice with Motivos; immerse yourself in the power of self-expression and storytelling during an evening filled with inspiring conversations, live performances, and engaging activities; an opportunity to connect with heart-driven individuals; 5-7 p.m.; room 144, ARCH (La Casa Latina).

            Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran; Kusha Sefat, University of Tehran; 5:30 p.m.; room 401, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Middle East Center).

Talks

3          “The Pictures Can Say More Things”: Change Across Time in Young Children’s References to Images and Words During Text Discussion; Maren Auckerman, literacy search candidate; 10:30 a.m.; room B10, Stiteler Hall (Graduate School of Education).

            Agile Design of Domain-Specific Accelerators and Compilers; Priyanka Raina, Stanford University; 1 p.m.; Zoom webinar; join: https://tinyurl.com/raina-talk-oct-3 (Electrical & Systems Engineering). 

4          Developing an Empathetic Accuracy Test for Policing; Justin Nix, University of Nebraska Omaha; noon; room 201, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Criminology).

            Trick or Treat: How Does Diabetes Confer a More Severe SARS-CoV2 Infection? Sara Kass-Gergi, Penn Medicine; noon; room 213, Stemmler Hall (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

            The Merry Go Round of Blackness in Italy; Justin Randolph Thompson, multimedia artist; 3:30 p.m.; room 231, Fisher-Bennett Hall (Italian Studies).

5          "We Are Not Immune”: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS; Aziza Ahmed, Boston University; noon; room 2, Gittis Hall (History).

            Interrogating Patterning and Cellular Heterogeneity in the Developing Human Lung; Jason Spence, University of Michigan; 4 p.m.; Smilow Center (Penn-CHOP Lung Biology Institute).

            Women Writers from Pompeii: Epistolary Fictions in Roman Wall Painting; Hérica Valladares, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 4:45 p.m.; room 402, Cohen Hall (Classical Studies).

            Tibet and the U.S.-China “Minority Relationship: in the Cold War; Xiaoyuan Liu, University of Virginia; 5:15 p.m.; room 200, PCPSE; register: https://tinyurl.com/liu-talk-oct-5 (Center for East Asian Studies).

            Weitzman Fall 2023 Visiting Artist Lecture Series; Kevin Jerome Everson, artist and filmmaker; 6 p.m.; ICA and Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/everson-talk-oct-5 (Institute of Contemporary Art, Weitzman School).

6          Health Equity and the Role of Racism-Conscious Policymaking; Shekinah Fashaw-Walters, University of Minnesota; Raynard Washington, Mecklenburg County Public Health Department; Ruqaiijah Yearby, Ohio State University; Atheendar Venkataramani, Opportunity for Health Lab; noon; Zoom webinar; register: https://tinyurl.com/ldi-talk-oct-6 (Leonard Davis Institute).

9          The “Proyecto de Investigación de La Quebrada”: A Community-Engaged Study of Afro-Descendant Ancestry and Archaeology in Peru; Maria Nieves Colón, University of Minnesota; noon; room 345, Penn Museum (Anthropology).

            Play, Language, and the Social Imagination: The Aesthetics of Early Literacy; Haeny Yoon, literacy search candidate; 3 p.m.; room 263, GSE (Graduate School of Education).

            Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments; Jaco de Swart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 3:30 p.m.; room 392, Cohen Hall (History & Sociology of Science).

10        Targeting Transcriptional Addiction in Cancer; Rani E. George, Harvard Medical School; noon; Caplan Auditorium, Wistar Institute (Wistar).

Asian American Studies

Info and to register: https://asam.sas.upenn.edu/events/.

3          From “Cultural Diving” to “Cultural Surfing”: How Chinese and Hollywood Studios Co-Develop Global Movies; Jun (Philip) Fang, Colby College; 5:15 p.m.; room 473, McNeil Building.

Economics

In-person events. Info: https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/events.

5          The Effects of the ACA on Pharmaceutical Consumption and the Direction of Innovation; Zhemin Yuan, economics; 3:30 p.m.; room 101, PCPSE.

9          A Strategic Model of Software Dependency Networks; Angelo Mele, Johns Hopkins University; 4:30 p.m.; room 100, PCPSE.

This is an update to the October AT PENN calendar, which is online now. The November AT PENN calendar will be published on October 31. Submit items for the November AT PENN calendar to almanac@upenn.edu by October 16.