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Update: Summer AT PENN

  • August 1, 2023
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Children’s Events

8/4       At-Home Anthro Live: Theseus and the Minotaur: Let’s Hear an Ancient Myth; students will learn the story of Theseus traveling to the island of Crete to battle a half-human, half-bull monster called a minotaur, then ancient Greek and Roman artifacts in the Penn Museum collection; 1 p.m.; online webinar; info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar/1640/at-home-anthro-live (Penn Museum).

8/5       Understanding Ancient Cuneiform Workshop; students will explore cuneiform, the complex writing system used by multiple languages across the Ancient Middle East, then make a clay tablet and carve their own message to take home; 11 a.m.; Penn Museum; included with admission (Penn Museum). Also August 5, 1:30 p.m.; August 6, 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

 

Morris Arboretum

In-person events at Morris Arboretum. Prices and info: https://www.morrisarboretum.org/see-do/events-calendar.

8/8       Boogie in the Bubbles: the 90s Edition; get jiggy with da bomb songs we all love from the 90s—Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, and many others; 11 a.m., Whimsical Woods.

 

Exhibits

Penn Museum

In-person tours at Penn Museum. Info: https://www.penn.museum/calendar.

8/2       Middle East Galleries Tour; 2 p.m.

8/5       Rome Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.

8/6       Mexico & Central America Gallery Tour; 11 a.m.

 

Special Events

8/4       Morris Arboretum & Gardens Community Weekend; special discounted community weekend in celebration of Morris Arboretum & Gardens’ 90th anniversary; 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; admission: $9/general, free/members, PennCard holders, children under 3 (Morris Arboretum). Also August 5 and 6, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

            Manifest Your Glow Book Sale; sale of books and self-care items for patients, staff, and visitors of PSOM; noon-4 p.m.; Perelman Lobby, PSOM (PSOM).

 

Talks

8/1       Mechanics-Informed Optimization for Enhanced Adhesion and Toughness; Sumukh Shankar Pande, mechanical engineering & applied mechanics; 10 a.m.; room 337, Towne Building (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).

8/2       Trends In Academic Dentistry: Research Funding And Gender Equity; Nathalia Garcia, Southern Illinois University; noon; online webinar; register: https://cde.dental.upenn.edu/Course/1441-Trends-In-Academic-Dentistry-Research-Funding-And-Gender-Equity (Penn Dental Medicine).

8/8       Wall-Modeled Large-Eddy Simulation of Non-Equilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers; Imran Hayat, mechanical engineering & applied mechanics; 10 a.m.; room 337, Towne Building (Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics).

 

Medical Ethics & Health Policy

Unless noted, Zoom webinars. Info: https://medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/events.

8/2       Investigating Sex-by-Ancestry Interactions of Asthma and Environmental Modifiers in African Descent Admixed Individuals; 3 p.m.; room 302, CRB, and Zoom webinar.

 

This is an update to the Summer AT PENN calendar, which is online now. To submit an event for a future AT PENN calendar or weekly update, email almanac@upenn.edu.

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